Kirjahaku

International secret police operations, drug trafficking, prostitution, and identity theft set the stage for the eternal struggle between Good and Evil. Acclaimed as one of today's best contemporary noir writers, Massimo Carlotto reaches new heights in the most complex "Alligator" novel to date. Rich with biting humor, humanity, and psychological insight, this is an exemplary noir novel from a crime writer at the top of his game. Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator, and his partners Max the Memory and Beniamino Rossini have fallen into a trap laid by their worst enemy, Giorgio Pellegrini, a wanted man who has no intention of living as a fugitive for the rest of his life and turns state evidence, but something goes wrong. Blackmailed by a high government official, the Alligator and his partners are forced to investigate. But they've been framed: even if they discover who's behind the crime, they'll rot in prison. To survive, some rules will have to be bent, and others broken.

“Crime writing this good just has to be read.” — NB Magazine International secret police operations, drug trafficking, prostitution, and identity theft set the stage for the eternal struggle between Good and Evil “A masterpiece.”— Mystery Tribune “An engrossing fable in which families and societies unravel and are refashioned.” — ForeWord Reviews Acclaimed as one of today’s best noir writers, Massimo Carlotto reaches new heights in the most complex Alligator novel to date, rich with biting humour, humanity, and psychological insight. Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator, and his partners have fallen into a trap laid by their worst enemy: Giorgio Pellegrini, a wanted man who has no intention of living as a fugitive and turns police informer. But something goes wrong: with Pellegrini’s wife and lover in the sights of a team of ruthless sicarios, the Alligator and co. are blackmailed and forced to investigate. But they've been framed. Even if they discover who's behind the crime, they'll rot in prison. To survive, some rules will have to be bent, and others broken. “Carlotto makes even minor characters three-dimensional, such as a woman whose face shows that “she’d expected more from life and couldn’t figure out why that hadn’t come to pass,” in this grim tale of violence and corruption. James Ellroy fans will be satisfied.” - Publishers Weekly

Closing the door on a crime-ridden past, Marco Buratti plans to spend the rest of his days in the darkness of seedy nightclub, sipping Calvados and listening to the blues. But things don't quite go as planned and when his gangster friend's girlfriend is kidnapped, Buratti is once again thrown head first into the criminal underworld he has been struggling to escape - a world in which old and new criminal organisations collide and innocent bystanders are as hard to find as straight policemen.

Serial killers, mercenarios, servicios secretos y polic as idealistas se dan cita en una Venecia invadida por turistas en desbandada.El Turista es el asesino en serie perfecto. Para empezar, no firma sus cr menes y tampoco lanza desaf os a los investigadores, pues dejarse atrapar no entra en sus planes. Es un mago del camuflaje, para matar no sigue un esquema fijo y nunca act a dos veces en la misma ciudad o en el mismo pa s: de ah su apodo. Su fijaci n, asesinar mujeres solitarias y elegantes para poder examinar los contenidos de sus bolsos y, a trav s de los peque os objetos de uso cotidiano que contienen, apropiarse tambi n de sus vidas.No siente empat a, remordimientos ni miedo, y ejerce un control absoluto sobre su propia psicopat a. En otras palabras, es incapturable, la pesadilla de todas las polic as europeas. Pero, tarde o temprano, hasta el asesino m s fr o da un paso en falso y El Turista acaba matando a la mujer equivocada. Todo ocurre en Venecia, la bella y fr gil ciudad territorio de caza ideal para cualquier asesino, y la jaula no ser la c rcel, sino una trampa mucho m s peligrosa...Pietro Sambo ha cometido un error, uno solo, pero le ha costado muy caro. Exjefe de la Brigada de Homicidios, vive marginado y con el coraz n roto, hasta que se le presenta la ocasi n de reconquistar la dignidad y el honor perdidos. Pero, para detener a El Turista, de nuevo tendr que saltarse todas las reglas, y ahora hay mucho m s en juego que su reputaci n.Maestro reconocido de la novela negra europea, Massimo Carlotto fuerza los l mites entre g neros para llegar hasta donde nadie ha llegado nunca. En su primer thriller ha desafiado todos los paradigmas, construyendo un artefacto narrativo que no ofrece m s certeza que la adrenalina.