When his old friend and former fencing instructor dies suspiciously, Agent Henry Bride uncovers a string of deaths connected only by a piece of software. Clue after clue puts Bride closer to an intricate network of death that includes a major assassination as only its first step. With the clock running out, Bride is faced with a villain no one has heard of, a killer who isn’t exactly human, and a plot that will require every ounce of his strength and cunning to survive, as Agent Bride must prove there is nothing mightier than the sword.
Genre: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General1> The Man In the Coffin
The face of a corpse fits like the wrong man’s suit. Even properly embalmed, the body is barely identifiable to those who knew its owner best. It will appear puffy, yet thin. The muscles taken for granted in life can no longer hold the expressive cast the way they once had. Instead they resign their duties, letting the epidermis fall slack. “Skin slippage” is the term used in the industry. The challenge of the good mortuary makeup artist is to diminish the facial changes of the deceased—to make it appear alive—as if only sleeping. That was the first advice Max Weindenburg’s grandfather had told him about the business back when he was twelve. Grandpa Otto had taught young Max all of his expertise of the trade before he retired, and now, Max thought, he must have pulled out every trick and secret his grandfather ever passed on to him on his latest client, plus two or three of his own. He had even devised a new paraffin formula for the heavy facial reconstruction needed for this job. He stood back from the coffin and admired his work that had survived the evening’s wake commendably.
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Translated by Massimo Salomoni
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Translated by ADSON ALVES BARBOSA
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Translated by Laura De Alba
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