Florence, 1888. Two weeks after the collapse of the Academy's East Wing. Tess Hadley steps off the train into Italian light that does not apologize for itself, and within forty seconds she has spotted the second node.

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It is a brass gear, four centimeters across, fitted into the left eye socket of a Renaissance bronze horse in the station piazza. Forty-seven teeth. The same prime number she found beneath London. The horse has been standing here since 1490. It has been watching the trains arrive for fifty years. No one has noticed.

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Tess will. Tess does. And the network of Leonardo's Vaults — older than the unification of Italy, older than the printing press, hidden in plain sight beneath churches and piazzas and the city's foundry quarter — is about to admit one more reader.

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The Order is in Florence. So is a woman named Sera who claims to be on Tess's side. So is a partial map that shows where the Vaults connect — and where the next one waits, in Milan, where they cast iron and other things.

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Book two of The Da Vinci Cipher.

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The Medici Codex

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