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When you keep running from your past, it haunts you. It lurks in dark alleys, and slithers through crowded streets. But when you search for it willingly, it vanishes.
Criminal prodigy Alessandro Lykaios breaks out of his drugged stay at the mafia's - The Chaconas Residency. His motif? To find his long lost mate-turned wife, Dakota Bane- but he can't pull it off alone.
A brutal murder shakes the very foundation of his life : Naomi Bane, FBI, drops dead in her apartment on The Lunar Eclipse, in Vietnam.
Two Vietnamese FBI agents in Greece on the case
The Mafia on his trail
A vague figure in his shadows
The Last Serpent in his clutches
And a revenge, a concocted plan, a run from destiny. Death, revenge, romance, and a pinch of satire weave together into this coming of age adventure of Alessandro Lykaios, the Assassin.
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