ASIN: B0088793S2
Publisher: DV Books
Pages: 252
Liszt’s Dante Symphony is a strikingly original and enigmatic tale of murder and covert spy rings amid the turbulent rise of Bismarck’s Prussia, which leads to Hitler’s infernal Third Reich. Following the life of Angelo Di Purezza Jr., whose father was a student and (unbeknownst to him) fellow spy of Liszt’s, the reader is taken on a journey of suspense and intrigue that cascades over two generations. During those years Europe would experience numerous revolutions and witness two World Wars, thus emulating the horrors foretold in Dante’s “Inferno” and Liszt’s symphony, as Hitler’s poison gas and human incinerators, coupled with a fiery barrage of weapons, turned the world into a Hellish cauldron of death and destruction. A stellar cast of historical characters fill the pages, including Franz Liszt, Napoleon III, Pope Pius IX, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Gustave Dore, Albert Einstein, a string ...
