The City Beneath The Skin

This is a thriller about love, exploration, excavation and the perils of being caught up with the Southern italian mafia - the Camorra. "It must be very difficult to have an original thought about Herculaneum." says Catrina, the girl Alex Mayne meets wandering in the city buried by the huge explosion of Vesuvius 2000 years before. In fact, Alex does have a very original idea. When they plan to dig through the skin of lava that covers the old city they uncover treasures beyond the dreams of avarice. But they inadvertently stumble on another underworld =-that of the sinister Camorra.


Genre: Mystery