Why, for example, did the dead man leave so many bafflingly inane clues when a Post-itTM note would have done? Why does our code-breaking hero know so much useless stuff and why is he usually wrong about it anyway? And what's the truth behind that frighteningly sinister symbol, the publishers' circle? The one that claims a thriller of such power will come along that it will render all other books pointless...

THE ASTI SPUMANTE CODE is that book. Rather to its own surprise, it is also a highly literate, fast-paced thriller about secrecy, revenge, storytelling, love, landscape and memory, and lots of other things that crop up. And it charts new territory for the conspiracy thriller. For, extraordinarily, it does not feature Leonardo da Vinci ...

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

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