Natasha Marlow

Rome, February 1935. A child wakes in the middle of the night and sees a fireball on the horizon. By morning, he is blind. The building's residents saw nothing; the militia calls it mass hysteria. MVSN agent Furio Ferretti distrusts official explanations. The address connected to the disturbance matches the last known location of Italy's most brilliant and most deliberately vanished theoretica...

Summer 1934. A soldier on leave in the Carnic Alps does not return. His body is found on a mountain path eleven days later. Tissue damage catastrophic — radiation levels incompatible with any known source, from a zone where there is no source. The military closes the area; case closed before opened. Furio Ferretti recognizes the quality of the damage — he has seen it before at Vergiate, in a f...

Italy, 1934. A dead man is walking. Pietro Carnevali, missing for seven months, is seen alive at a Lombard factory — unchanged, unaged. OVRA agent Furio Ferretti, who doesn't believe in ghosts, is assigned to a classified joint investigation unit by Mussolini's direct order. Eleanor Hawthorne arrives on Churchill's mandate, a physicist who reads anomalies as data. They don't trust each other ...