A psychological thriller full of twists, but also a love story. It is ‘The guardian of the turtles’ (Rogiosi Editore, pp. 232, euro 16), the new novel by Elisabetta Masso, journalist and writer in her third literary effort. The book engages in a hypnotic reading that keeps the reader glued to the end of the story whose protagonist is John Pen, a charming British Special Air Service agent, who after the death of his beloved sister Katrin, consumed by grief, left everything. to secretly take refuge in Cascais, Portugal, far from his previous life. Nobody, except his best friend Alfred, knows where he is.
Yet one day a letter reaches him. To write to him is Victoria, an old love of his: paralyzed following an accident, she is in a rehabilitation clinic, and without revealing where she is hospitalized, she confesses to John that she has put him in danger, inviting him to go to Rome, to her home. There, in the safe, you will find directions and answers. From that moment a whirlwind story begins for John Pen that drags the reader through twists, suspense and breathtaking situations.
In fact, John Pen leaves his Portuguese ‘exile’ to enter a turbulent affair which, traveling between London, Rome and Naples, leads him to discover a dense network of intrigues in which he is involved. To free himself from this network and rediscover his lost serenity, John Pen has nothing to do but follow Victoria’s instructions to the end, who imposes on him a treasure hunt that will lead him to discover a shocking truth.