In his latest, Masello lets loose a stable of thriller stereotypes and drives them hastily, but not unskillfully, through a sprawling adventure story complete with shady foreigners, ancient codes and ...

David Franco is a man on a mission. In Robert Masello's riveting "The Medusa Amulet," the intelligent young scholar has cut a Faustian-like deal with a mysterious woman. If he succeeds in finding an ...

In this fascinating, funny, and frightening supernatural thriller, Masello (Blood and Ice) skillfully weaves together the story of the deaths of the Russian royal family with the possibility of a new ...

"Do whatever you secretly want to do," he advises the Class of 2001. "You [might] think it's smart to get into investment banking. [But] once you start climbing that ladder, it's hard to get off that ...

"The Romanov Cross" (Bantam), by Robert Masello Army epidemiologist Frank Slater does the right thing — and is court-martialed for his actions — in Robert Masello's latest novel, "The Romanov Cross.

A mirror that makes those who gaze into it immortal. A garland that makes the wearer invisible. A long-lost manuscript. A mortally ill sister. The Newberry Library. The Castel St. Angelo. Cellini.