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On a cramped bus descending toward the island village, the narrator’s observations shift between history and present heat—hydrofoils slicing the bay, visions of ancient ruins, and intimate encounters amid crowded public space. A calm atmosphere masks underlying tension, suggesting that love, hatred, betrayal, and the hunger for power will culminate in an inevitable final moment.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>LAST SNOW  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>FORGE BOOKS BY ERIC VAN LUSTBADER  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>First Daughter Mistress of the Pearl The Ring of Five Dragons The Testament The Veil of a Thousand Tears  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>LAST  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>S  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>NOW  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Eric Van Lustbader  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>ATOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK NEW YORK  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>LAST SNOW  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Copyright © 2010 by Eric Van Lustbader All rights reserved.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>AForge Book  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[www.tor-forge.com](www.tor-forge.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Forge® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. ISBN 978-0-7653-2515-0 First Edition: February 2010 Printed in the United States of America 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>LAST SNOW  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>PROLOGUE  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Capri | April 1  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>EVERYTHING COMES to an end. Love, hate, betrayal. The greed of wealth, the lust for power, the comfort in religion. In the final moment, everyone falls, even the kings of empires and the princes of darkness. In the silence of the tomb, we all get what we deserve.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Reassured that for him that particular moment is a long way off, he boards the cramped and crowded bus at Piazza Vittoria for the vertiginous ride down the mountainside into Capri village. The driver ’s square metal fare box is closed and locked and he will not take money for the ride. This is the Caprese version of a strike against management for higher pay. No marches, no shaking fists, no amplified rhetoric. Calm and considered, slow as the pace of the island itself, the protest has been going on for three years. The two-lane road down which the bus wheezingly careens is steeply pitched, harrowingly twisting. Traffic whizzes by in the opposite lane so close the trucks appear ready to kiss the bus. The road is decorated on one side by sprays of brilliant bougainvillea, on the other by views of the Gulf of Naples, glittering in the sun. Occasionally, in the mysterious niches of the rock face, miniature painted plaster statues of the Virgin Mary can be seen, bedecked with wilted flowers. He has seen the open-air factory near the beautiful cemetery in Anacapri where the statues are made, white bisque with blank eyes turned out of rubber molds, ruffles of rough edges that must  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>be removed with a knife. Many of the passengers, mostly the older women, touch forehead, chest, and shoulders in the sign of the cross as they pass these hallowed places where pedestrians were struck down.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>All the orange plastic seats are occupied. Bags shifting between bare knees. Long hair floating on a hot breath of wind. Brief arias of Italian conversations, the loud, brutal bite of German. Handprints on the glass, greasy chromium poles, the stirring of silent bodies in the grip of the forces of gravity. He stands, staring out through the window at the cloudless sky, the cobalt water, the yachts and pleasure boats. He sees a packed hydrofoil cutting a scimitar swath through the bay from Naples and he wonders whether this is the one.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Watching the hydrofoil, it occurs to him that the port of Mer-gellina was the last real thing he can remember. When he himself stood on the eleven o’clock hydrofoil as it bounded across the bay, when frenzied Naples faded into the heat haze, when the steeply rising slopes of Capri had appeared as if from the deepest portion of his memory, he had entered a land of lost time. He felt as if he was seeing the rocky shore as Augustus Caesar had known it more than two thousand years ago. 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