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Not to be disrespectful to Her Majesty’s elite secret agent men
and women, but I can’t help but laugh.
“Come on, Andrea,” I contest. “There
is no cave. Or if there is a cave, it’s already been discovered a thousand
times over by scores of snotty nosed curious kids just like da Vinci once was.
There’s no magical hocus pocus going on inside it. People always look for
reasons behind somebody’s creative genius because they can’t conceive of
someone so damned smart. They need to create an outlandish story for it to be
believable.”
“I agree with you,” she replies. “And
my colleague here believes you. But the fact remains, our intercepts have
spotted these two men leading a guerilla expedition into the forested territory
between the Tuscan village of Vinci and the Dolomite Mounta
