The book:
Publisher Meridiano Zero
Year 2008 255 pages - Paperback
Translation Marina Rotondo, Carlo Prosperi
The plot:
A headless corpse in the trunk of his Chrysler . A psychopathic killer and explosives as manic colleague. A "chore" easy and clean that explodes in an escalation of violence. Charlie Swift, gangsters in Orlando, Florida, this is business as usual. Things get complicated when her boss Stan, undisputed boss of the local bad, he finds himself up against the wall: Beggar Johnson, from Miami to check the crime of almost throughout the state, has also decided to take possession of its territory. The gang is massacred by Stan and Charlie finds himself the sole survivor of the massacre, but the records of Johnson's criminal empire in his hands, making it the target of a frantic manhunt triggered by the FBI and the gang Miami.
This book is described as the best debut of the year (2008) and named the Edge Award. Victor Gischler has written four novels, even if this is the only translated into italiano.La story is very violent, many deaths and blood, a man who finds himself alone to fight against a criminal gang, although he is already part of this ruthless world. A Tarantino noir, as is been defined, with the background in which the rules of crime are deeply rooted, as to transform the relations of friendship, for friends and sometimes it also gives life. A secondary character who initially seems, will eventually lead the game with blood, with the losers and winners. But at what price? Novel
very bloody, sometimes funny, but really well written.
Writer:
born in 1969. Author of seven novels translated into many languages. Writer of comic books for Marvel, which have as main character "The Punisher," "Wolverine" and the regular series of "Deadpool".
This is his first novel. And the Edge Award Finalist all'Anthony. Here
I made the interview: Interview with Victor Gischler
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