Reincarnation in Venice by Max Ehrlich (1979, Hardcover)

Reincarnation in Venice
by Max Ehrlich
Publisher:  Simon and Schuster
Copyright 1979

SEPTEMBER 1954, VENICE:  "The arm came down hard, and he felt the impact of the knife, felt the blade enter, felt it turn in his flesh, rip and tear . . . .  He started to fall back.  As he did, his assassin's face fell out of view.  His eye caught something else, over the man's shoulder.  It was a small head, carved out of stone, and set in the roof of the sottoportico.  The stone head was human, but it was attached to the curling body of a snake.  The face had big round eyes and an ugly, squashed pug nose.  But instead of a tongue, the open, lewd mouth showed fangs.  The face smiled insolently down at him, the fangs darting out obscenely from between the thick lips.  It was the last thing Vittorio Favretto ever saw."

SEPTEMBER 1979, NEW YORK:  "He was walking up Third, between Fifty-second and Fifty-third, on his way to pick up Cassie for dinner, when something caught his eye.  It was a gold medallion in the window of a pawnshop . . . .  The window was cluttered with a variety of articles . . . .  Mixed with the rest of the jewelry, the medallion was rather inconspicuous.  Yet somehow, it had drawn his attention.  Inscribed on it was something he took to be a family crest or coat-of-arms.  A big male lion, heavily muscled and richly maned, standing on its hind legs, paws upraised, clutching a scroll in each paw . . . .  Normally, David Drew cared nothing about jewelry.  He had friends who wore gold chains around their necks, amulets, signs of the zodiac, shark's teeth, medallions, and beads.  But it was not his style . . . .  He could pass a hundred shops like this without a second look.  He hesitated for a moment; then he decided to take a closer look at it.  He walked into the pawnshop."

What was the connection between the stone head in Venice, twenty-five years earlier, and the gold medallion in New York?  What possible relationship could exist between Vittorio Favretto, a young Italian nobleman, and David Drew, a very contemporary systems analyst for a major American computer firm?

In the tradition of his celebrated novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, that master storyteller Max Ehrlich once again has woven a gripping novel to fascinate all readers caught up by the mystery and intrigue inherent in the idea of reincarnation.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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