The 39 Clues The Cahill Files Book 01 - Operation Trinity by Clifford Riley

Author:Clifford Riley [Riley, Clifford]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-05-07T20:00:00+00:00

Grace wandered through the empty gallery in a daze. She couldn’t believe she’d agreed to this. Rose wanted her to stall the Nazis — to keep the altarpiece safe until the Monuments Men arrived. Because if the “Lamb” were destroyed before the Cahills decoded the map, they’d lose their one chance to discover what the Vespers were after.

Grace knew why saving the altarpiece was important, but the plan — if you could even call it that — was insane. In order to reach the “Lamb,” Grace would have to sneak into the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe. The thought of getting into Austria was sheer madness. Exploring Altaussee — the town Rose identified — was tantamount to a suicide mission.

Rose told Grace that she knew someone who might be willing to fly her to Austria — a contact from the French Resistance. Their code of secrecy prevented Rose from calling her while Grace was in the room, and she politely requested that she wait in the gallery.

The museum was so quiet that Grace could make out the sound of a radio broadcast coming from one of the nearby offices. The familiar cadences settled in her ear and sent a shiver down her spine. It was President Roosevelt — the late President Roosevelt, more accurately. He’d died only a few weeks ago, and the whole country was still in mourning. This French radio program seemed to be playing snippets from Roosevelt’s famous speeches. But this was something Grace hadn’t heard before: a speech about the missing art in Europe.

“Whatever these paintings may have been to men who looked at them generations back — today they are not only works of art. Today they are the symbols of the human spirit, symbols of the world the freedom of the human spirit has made.”

She shivered. The freedom of the human spirit.

Mr. Blythe hadn’t known anything about the altarpiece’s secrets, and had still been willing to risk his life to protect it. He’d known that art was worth fighting for.

It wasn’t about hidden Clues or secret maps. Being a Cahill meant using your power to stop whatever evil was threatening the freedom of the human spirit.

Whatever the Vespers were looking for, they couldn’t be allowed to find it. Someone had to save the altarpiece before it was too late.

She looked around the empty gallery.

And apparently, that someone was her.

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