Chapter 9 Constantinople The Sea of Marmara was like a sheet of blue glass as the Venetian Trader skimmed over the water towards the harbour like a graceful swan. Hassan felt a surge of excitement as the city of Constantine loomed up before him, its walls high and seemingly unbreachable. It had been four years …
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Dan's Hymn to Dante
Inferno by Dan Brown In his latest novel, Dan Brown sends his unlikely hero, Harvard professor Robert Langdon on a romp round Florence. Accompanied by Sienna Brooks, a young doctor with an IQ of 208, Langdon embarks on a quest to find and destroy a deadly virus. Planted by a misguided idealist Bertrand Zobrist, the …
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