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“This novel is set in Italy in 1943, in and around the Abbey of Monte Cassino. It’s a heist-within-a heist…Pietro Houdini is posing as someone restoring works of art, and they go to the Abbey, which is full to the brim with the most important artworks in Italy. Italy is occupied by Germany and under fascism and the Allies are gradually advancing northward. You know that this war is going to come upon them in Monte Cassino. Houdini’s plan is to steal three paintings from the Nazis, while the Nazis themselves are emptying the Abbey of all these incredible treasures.” Read more...
