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Meeting on the steps to Hades, a novel by Ron Savage

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Meeting on the steps to Hades

a novel by Ron Savage

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Three intertwining stories: 1) Ann Silva has gone to Madrid to work at the conservation studio in the Museo del Prado. She is restoring a Flemish painting called Meeting on the Steps to Hades. The painter is Luc Grendel, a 16th-century Flemish painter and one of the three protégées of Hieronymus Bosh. 2) Taylor Bane is considering a run for the senate from California, but he has to rid himself of some bad baggage. In his college days, Taylor and a couple of his fraternity brothers brutally raped two girls at a frat Halloween party. The two girls were Annie and Mariel. Taylor has now hired an assassin, Liesbet Grendel, to kill Annie Silva. No sense bringing all of that into a senate race. 3) Liesbet has been killing for a long, long time. She<U+2019>s very good at what she does. The Prado also has Luc Grendel<U+2019>s diary as well as his painting. Annie has started to read the diary and the painter writes about a “Liesbet” by name. Luc begins to paint Meeting on the Steps to Hades. Liesbet feels betrayed. Angry and still in love, Liesbet can<U+2019>t bring herself to destroy either the painting or the diary. Luc also writes about her talking of “Worlds other than this one.”

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