The rest was history. When the disfigured body was dragged from the water later that day, it was an open and shut case: death by misadventure. Nobody would lament the passing of the disgraced former archbishop, just as little was made of the disappearance of a retired, penniless carpenter from Umbria. Even if it had, nobody would ever connect the two.
And now Usberti, whisked off in the night to live in hiding on his island off the coast of Sicily, was ready to strike back at his enemies from a position of absolute safety, where nobody would suspect him, let alone come looking for him. Vengeance would be his, and it would be carried out from beyond the grave.
He couldnt wait.
But what Massimiliano Usberti couldnt possibly have known back then, six months ago, was that his revenge quest would lead him to a greater reward by far. A treasure he couldnt have imagined in his wildest dreams of wealth and power.
Usberti was soon to make the discovery of his life.