Priest stared at the security doors through which the arriving passengers were coming, then turned his attention back to Bao.
Bao said he didn’t want to talk about too much on the phone, but he described records uncovered in a safe deposit box at his bank, DFR Wien, that concerned an ancient collection of art and letters dating to the year 1500 in Florence.
“What’s this about people dying?” Priest asked.
“I’m not sure yet and I want to dig a little deeper. But some notes found in the box along with photographs of art…”
“Wait,” Priest interrupted. “Photographs? If it’s from 1500, there couldn’t be any photos.”
“Yeah. Well, we didn’t find any real art. Or even any real letters. Just photos of these things on old paper…”
“How do you know it’s old?”
“First of all, they’re in black and w
