In Carlotto's The Campagna Trail, Inspector Campagna uses an old friendship with notorious drug dealer Roby Pizzo in a Machiavellian attempt to keep the peace. But when an interfering new police chief demands Campagna bring down the Mafioso who heads Pizzo's gang, Campagna must use every weapon he has to save his job - and his life. Meanwhile in Carofiglio's The Speed of the Angel, a writer in crisis strikes up an unlikely friendship with a mysterious woman he meets in a quiet seaside café. As their conversations deepen, and their obsessions darken, their drug-fuelled relationship begins to spiral, in this haunting tale of damnation and redemption. Finally in De Cataldo's The White Powder Dance, the city police are put on the trail of a baby-faced new graduate in the Milanese banking sector. As the pursuit accelerates through back streets and skyscrapers, it becomes clear that there is more to organised crime than getting your hands dirty.

Cocaine

Literature & Fiction

Carlotto, Massimo

De Cataldo, Giancarlo

Carofiglio, Gianrico

Cataldo, Carlotto Carofiglio De

Literary

MacLehose Press

It is 1977. A new force is terrorising Rome - a mob of reckless, ultraviolent youths known as La Banda della Magliana. As the gang ruthlessly take control of Rome's heroin trade, they begin an inexorable rise to power. Banda della Magliana intend to own the streets of Rome - unless their internal struggles tear them apart. Based on Rome's modern gangland history, Romanzo Criminale fearlessly confronts Italy's Age of Lead: war on the streets and terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.

Romanzo Criminale

Genre Fiction

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

The “razor-sharp political thriller set during the dying days of Berlusconi’s regime” that inspired the Netflix original series (New Statesman). This “fast-moving crime thriller” takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where crime families, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize―a multibillion-dollar development twenty miles from the Italian capital (Publishers Weekly). During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi’s reign, a massive development proposal that will turn the depressed coastal settlement of Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates. It’s business as usual in the Italian capital. Or so it seems. A vicious gang of local thugs loyal to nobody but themselves is insisting on a bigger cut than agreed upon. The Mafia and their political puppets aren’t going to back down without a fight. And one policeman, pushed to the sidelines, may not be able to stop an all-out war . . .With a plot that “thrills from the get-go,” Suburra is a compelling work of international crime fiction and the inspiration for the popular Netflix series of the same name (New Statesman). “A novel of Rome, meaning that the city itself, in all its history, glory, and despair, is skillfully sewn into the fiber of the tale. . . . Evokes Mario Puzo’s famous trilogy and other classics of the genre.”―Kirkus Reviews

Suburra

Bonini, Carlo

Europa Editions

“Razor-sharp political thriller set in Berlusconi’s Rome.”―The New Statesman 
Things are changing in Rome. The new Pope, determined to bring radical reform to the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary Jubilee year, one “of Mercy.” A new center-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor. And with crime lynchpin Samurai in jail, his protégé Sebastiano Laurenti attempts to establish himself as the designated successor. But he must reckon not only with a new generation of enterprising gangsters and racketeers―out to carve for themselves a slice of the profits and opportunities offered by the major public works planned for the Jubilee―but also with ambitious newly elected politician, Chiara Visone. 
Betrayals, ambushes and infighting will inevitably alter the fragile political balance in the Eternal City. As the sharks circle, some tenuous hope endures in the unlikely alliance of an incorruptible politician of the old left and a young bishop who refuses to play the Vatican’s power games. But it remains to be seen whether, in the long night of Rome, there is room for redemption. 
Sharp, dark and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events.

The Night of Rome

World Noir

Incorporating distinct traditions and styles of crime writing, the three novellas in Judges are united by a theme of idealistic judges in an often futile struggle against crime and corruption. Andrea Camilleri's novella recounts the charming Judge Surra. Leaving his family behind, Surra arrives in the 19th-century Sicilian town of Montelusa from Turin and is given quirky gifts from the locals, but is oblivious to the veiled threats accompanying them. Finally forced to contend with a hostile community and an imminent attempt on his life, Surra proves he is relentless in his quest for justice. Carlo Lucarelli's novella presents a darkly hued Bologna in the 1980s, where judges are frequent targets of assassination attempts. The protagonist, Judge Valentina Lorenzi--"La Bambina"--stumbles upon an extensive money laundering operation involving prominent public officials. Determined to nip Valentina's investigations in the bud, the criminals attack the judge and leave her clinging to life. Ultimately, Valentina is faced with a troubling question: will she break her vow to uphold the letter of the law in order to bring those responsible to justice? The final novella, The Triple Dream of the Prosecutor, by judge and novelist Giancarlo De Cataldo, teeters between dream and reality. Prosecutor Mandati is engaged in a life-long feud with the corrupt mayor of Novere, and his efforts finally pay off on the night before the trial of his life. Kafkaesque, tumultuous, and thoroughly gripping.

Judges

Lucarelli, Carlo

Camillieri, Andrea

World Literature

Quercus Publishing

Les juges

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Camilleri, Andréa

Thrillers & Suspense

FLEUVE EDITIONS

Suburra, Tome 1 : Suburra

POINTS

Una organizacion naciente, despiadada y sanguinaria, trata de conquistar el cielo desde la periferia. Tres heroes jovenes malditos, con un sueno ingenuo y terrible. Un policia tozudo, un coro de criminales, jugadores de azar, criminologos, periodistas, jueces, cantantes, mafiosos, junto a elementos desviados del poder y terroristas fascistas. Y el burdel mas exclusivo de la ciudad. Una novela epica de extraordinaria fuerza, el corazon oculto de la Historia de Italia al desnudo.    /    A fledgling, ruthless and bloody organization tries to conquer the sky from the periphery. Three young heroes cursed, with a naive and terrible dream. A stubborn policeman, a chorus of criminals, gamblers, criminologists, journalists, judges, singers, gangsters, along with elements of power diverted fascists and terrorists. The most exclusive brothel in town. An epic novel of extraordinary power, the hidden heart of the History of Italy in the nude.

Una novela criminal (Spanish Edition)

rocabolsillo

Roma, a principios de los anos setenta. Petro Proietti, el inolvidable Libanes, tiene veinticinco anos y esta en la carcel. Todavia es un nino de la calle, pero ya empieza a pergenar su gran plan: convertirse en el rey de la Roma criminal. Junto a el, nos encontramos con sus companeros: el Dandi, el Bufalo, y el Esqueleto. Y Giada, una chica de buena familia, con la que el Libanes tendra continuos encuentros y desencuentros. Despues de intervenir en una pelea a favor del sobrino del jefe de la Camorra, se acerca a esta organizacion y empieza a aprender como funciona su estructura y organizacion. Pero su objetivo no es convertirse en un miembro de la misma, sino ser siervo de nadie, dueno de si mismo. Cuando sale de la carcel cuenta con sus amigos de siempre y con un trato con la Camorra: hacer llegar un barco cargado de drogas a la ciudad. Para ello, necesitara una inversion de mucho dinero. / Rome: in the early seventies. Petro Proietti, the unforgettable Lebanese, is very young and in jail. Hes planning on becoming the king of the Criminal Rome. His goal is to become his own master. When hes released from prison he has his friends and a pact: to get a boat loaded of drugs to the city. This will require an investment of a lot of money.

Roma criminal (Roca Editorial Criminal) (Spanish Edition)

Roca Editorial

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