Roger R. Talbot
Roger R. Talbot was born in Ireland, Dublin, in 1952 but spent most of his life in Italy. He is passionate about history, literature and theology, and writes in Italian. He made his debut in fiction in 2008 with the novel The Numbers of the Sand (Sperling & Kupfer), followed by the Last Supper of the Sisters (Sperling & Kupfer, 2010).
His books are translated in Germany.
Russia: a famous actress dies in a tragic accident on the set. Her husband, the Russian oligarch Gavrijl Derzhavin, suspects it is a murder. His daughter Nadja is convinced of this, even if the only clue is an old theatrical backdrop, which reappeared after decades of oblivion. Why had that little piece of little value hit her mother in the last days of her life? And why had it also intrigued Lena Leskov, Gavrijl's beautiful mistress? Nadja throws herself headlong into a disturbing and dangerous investigation ...
For twenty centuries the Apocalypse of John has contained an unsolved enigma; the number of the Beast, 666. But now a reserved scholar and a woman, divided by birth between Western and Muslim cultures, must dissolve it at any cost, before everything falls apart. In the shadows, a powerful Arab tycoon is in fact preparing to drive humanity back into the darkness of the Middle Ages. And it only has two numbers as weapons. An adventurous thriller, but above all an exciting novel, in which single existences, multiple places, multiple hypotheses intersect with the question that has haunted us for two millennia: the date of the end of the world.