Sandro Dariosto

Beyond Aspromonte Sandro Dariosto

THE THIRD ADVENTURE OF JACK BURTON, KNOWN AS THE RED A small package arrives in the mail, postmarked Jesi. Inside it is a key and a deposit receipt from the post office there. Rob recognizes his brother Will's handwriting on the envelope. He contacts the University, only to learn that Will has accepted a fellowship for another year, but he has yet to register for a single class in the fall. This leads Rob on a journey around the world to find the postmaster in Jesi, a village between the Appenines and the Adriatic Sea in Le Marche . The key opens a safe deposit box at the post office, and inside it lies a red folder holding a thick sheaf of plain white papers, bound together with a black clasp. Scrawled across the front of it: 13 DAGGERS. Rob notices immediately that even though Will's handwriting grows more and more erratic, it is never grows totally confused. Will has found a trace of Jack Burton, and he is off once more on his trail. Her name is Naguine, or at least that is what she calls herself. She is in love with a stranger she calls Burtoni, though her feelings are not returned. This must be their man. Jack Burton. As she lights a long ivory pipe, she gazes at the gently rising smoke with her olive eyes, and tries to explain why her Burtoni is always moving, always on the run. Never with a home. This Burtoni must be their man. Burton the Red. "My dear Burtoni believes," Naguine says, " he is hunted. Hunted by his past, hunted by what he has done long ago." Her Burtoni has escaped the Night of the Thirteen Daggers. But Jack Burton, Burton the Red, is still not free.