The Pharaoh Of Venice
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Madeleine Galli is a young forensic psychologist who has just arrived in Venice to speak at a medical symposium, visit her aunt, and hopefully see some historic Italian art. At her favourite café she shares a table with a mysterious man who introduces himself as Logan Milan. Madeleine asks about his occupation and that simple enquiry sets in motion a chain of events, transporting Madeleine from her comfortable world into a new and far more dangerous existence where the laws of the universe she knows and trusts seem to have been twisted and replaced by a new setAfter a short but strange conversation, Madeleine agrees to meet Logan for an evening meal, partly to clarify some of the strange things he has said. Logan discovers that Madeleine has special abilities and talents which set her apart and make her very interesting to him. One ability in particular highlights her as exceptional, and it’s an ability she is completely unaware she possesses.Over dinner, Logan states his occupation is a collector of knowledge. Specifically, knowledge in the form of ancient writings about a lost art related to hypnosis. This is an extremely powerful art whose secrets date back five thousand years to ancient Egypt – to the time of the first Pharaoh and a time when some people became so powerful they were treated like gods.Logan tells Madeleine of disturbing recent events that indicate someone is using the forbidden art to gather wealth and influence in Asia and Europe. In the latest incident, a Zürich bank manager has risen from his bed at three in the morning and, in front of his startled wife, left the house and driven to his bank where the security guard reports he spent some time in his office with an Oriental man and a teenage African girl. Bizarrely, the trio are arrested after leaving the bank when the manager’s car rams a police vehicle. Equally strange, no crime seems to have been committed at the bank. The manager professes to have no memory of
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