Not too bad, but overall lacking action.

Maybe it would have been more fun if I had read more of the previous books before this one. ( )

Fair + in the Nick Costa Series ( )

Really enjoy reading Hewson/Costa, but this was not one of my favorites ( )

Move over John Le Carre

Hewson keeps up the superior Nic Costa series, with Costa's team from Rome's Polizia di Stato investigating a series of escalating terrorist threats occurring as the city prepares for a G8 summit. Italy's president (an old family friend of the Costa family) gives them a private assignment to look deeper, but each step they take increases official threats against them by the Italian intelligence community. Then one of their own is gunned down in front of them by the apparent terrorist, a follower of an Etruscan devil. All hell breaks loose as Rome is put under martial law and the team realizes that someone in the government is pulling the strings. This is a change of direction for the series, which usually centers on complicated murders, but it's among the best Hewson's written. ( )