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Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He’s beginning to embrace la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick would arrive in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery and flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns. But, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later in a brutal fall from a high cliff. Has the trade in fraudulent artifacts upgraded to murder? Are the traffickers already on to Rick? The local Commissario and his team consider Rick an amateur, and worse, a foreigner.
About the Author
David Wagner is an emeritus professor of sociology and social work at the University of Southern Maine. He holds BA and MS degrees from Columbia University and a Ph. D. in Sociology from City University Graduate Center. He was awarded the C. Wright Mills award for his book Checkerboard Square, the Northeast Popular Culture Book Award for The New Temperance, and a Choice Outstanding Book award for Confronting Homelessness. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at California State University Dominguez Hills in 2009, and an adjunct professor there as well. See Dr. Wagner's website at davidwagnerbooks.net.
