Florence, 2013 – Alfredo Martelli, technical account manager and football coach, is introduced to the fledgling world of bitcoin by his nephew Gabriele, a visionary computer nerd with little desire to study. Alfred comes to share a precious but deadly secret with the players he coaches.

Florence, 2023 – Soo-Min, a young South Korean-Italian criminologist, is doing an operational, practical internship with the Carabinieri. She becomes involved, along with Yong-Soo, her mathematician friend, in an action-packed investigation, full of twists and turns, in which family and sporting values are pitted against human greed.

This is Soo-Min’s second investigation working alongside the Carabinieri. The first, set in Venice, was narrated in The Last Refrain.

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