Paradise City: A Novel of Suspense
by Lorenzo Carcaterra
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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 show more 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 cops as 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. show lessTags
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Als de Camorra zijn vader doodt, belooft Lo Manto wraak. Hij wordt politieman in Napels en bestrijdt de maffia die aangevoerd wordt door don Pete Rossi. Dan wordt zijn nichtje ontvoerd en als lokaas gebruikt om hem weer naar New York te lokken waar hij gedood moet worden. Maar ze krijgen hem niet te pakken. Als Rossi vervolgens ook de zus en moeder van Lo Manto als aas gebruikt, wordt de strijd alleen maar heviger. Spannende thriller die zich (weer) afspeelt rond de machtige Italiaanse maffia in Amerika. Het taalgebruik is vlot, het verhaal zelf niet ingewikkeld. De hoofdpersonen (Lo Manto en zijn Amerikaanse partner Jennifer) zijn dermate sympathiek dat de lezer al snel geboeid zal worden door het goed te volgen verhaal dat show more lezenswaardig blijft tot het eind. De auteur schreef o.a. mee aan de tv-serie Law & Order en schreef meer thrillers over de maffia. show less
Dec 20, 2010Dutch
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