Marcus, the penance-administering priest who earlier appeared in Carrisi’s novels Tribunale delle anime [The Lost Girls of Rome] and Cacciatore del buio [The Hunter of the Dark], is trained to spot anything out of the ordinary, root out crime and reveal its hidden face, but this time he’s chasing down clues to the hardest case he’s ever had to crack. He’s on a manhunt made even trickier by a blackout that has struck Rome, never before so deeply plunged into its own shadows. Darkness over Rome, in any case, is an ancient danger, one that harks back to the days of Pope Leo X, the pope who, nine days before he died in 1521, issued the most puzzling and unsettling papal bull in history. It decreed that the lights must never go off on the Eternal City.
