If you liked The DaVinci Code, if you like Venice,

if you've seen a thing or two of Carnivale,

you will love this book.

I found it to be an equally engaging,

well-told story,

but less pedantic, more fun.

This one takes place in La Serenissima, circa 1756.

There is an evil plot to overthrow 

the Doge and the government,

with the perpetrator(s) using Dante's Nine Circles as

the template to gruesomely and poetically do away 

with enemies, one-by-one.

Loaded with political intrigue, swashbuckling, 

with a touch of romance,

all against the backdrop of a very well depicted Carnivale.