Boisterous black comedy writer - funny and good-hearted, with much incident and expert enthusiasm for sex, food and drink.A" Literary Review A wonderful observer of everyday life, petty evil and the ordinariness of crime. One of France's leading crime and mystery authors.A" The Guardian

Under cover of darkness, an American family moves into a villa in Cholong-sur-Avre in Normandy. Fred Blake, the father, tells everyone he is there to write a history of the Allied landings. His wife Maggie gets involved in a local charity; their teenage children enrol in the lycee. At first glance a family like any other. But Fred's real name is Giovanni Manzoni - an ex-Mafia boss who has grassed and is now part of the FBI's witness-protection program. And his record in other locations would indicate that his cover is not likely to last very long.
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An American family moves into a villa in Normandy. Fred Blake, the father, tells everyone he is there to write a history of the Allied landings. His wife Maggie gets involved in a local charity; their teenage children enrol in the lycee. At first glance a family like any other. But Fred's real name is Giovanni Manzoni - an ex-Mafia boss.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781904738435
Publisert
2010-01-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Bitter Lemon Press
Høyde
277 mm
Bredde
195 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
277

Forfatter

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After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, a train guard on the Paris-Rome line and a professional parasite on the Paris cocktail circuit, Benacquista now a highly successful author of fiction, film scripts and even graphic novels. 'Holy Smoke', 'Someone Else' and 'Framed' were previously published by Bitter Lemon Press.