The most exciting achievement to date from the acclaimed author of
"Sleepers" and "Gangster," "Paradise City" is a riveting thriller
of two cops and two countries, a stunning crime novel about the
roots of revenge, honor, and evil.
As a fifteen-year-old, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice
the hard way. His father was gunned down by the Camorra, the
murderous clan run by Don Nicola Rossi. When his mother moved him
from New York back to his family's ancestral home in Naples, Gian
found himself face-to-face with the source of the mob's strength,
the spring that spawned its deadly killers.
Today, twenty-three years later, he is a dogged detective on the
Naples police force, homicide division, the most dangerous beat in
Europe. He is the nemesis of all who export evil, the man who stops
it before it spreads overseas. His efforts have not gone unnoticed.
"The strength of Naples reinforces the muscle of New York"-and now
the two worlds are about to collide.
In the highest towers of the most expensive streets of New York
City, Pete Rossi, the son of Don Nicola, has decided to bring Gian
back to America-permanently. When Gian learns that his teenage
niece, Paula, has gone missing in Manhattan, he cancels a
much-needed vacation to Capri, to paradise, joking that "one island
is just as good as the other."
Gian's homecoming will be anything but smooth. Someone must always
watch his back, and Detective Jennifer Fabini gets the job. A
gifted officer with her own personal demons, Jennifer thinks she'll
be dealing with a peasant from the old country. The handsome,
reserved, unrelenting Gian is a revelation: an irritant and a
temptation-especially for a woman who has sworn off copsas lovers.
Together the two must solve a disappearance that appears to be a
kidnapping . . . but turns out to be a deadly trap.
As they dash from the sun-struck villages of Italy to the darkest
drug dens of New York, their journey links old-world honor and
modern-day danger, and ends in a dizzying explosion of the present
and the past. "Paradise City" is Lorenzo Carcaterra's richest
entertainment, a book that is at once a sensational crime novel and
a provocative exploration of his trademark themes: violence and
innocence, love and revenge.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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