The Second Life of Inspector Canessa
Roberto Perrone author Hamish Goslow translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:27th Aug '20
Should be back in stock very soon

Annibale Canessa was a legend: the most notorious cop during Italy's brutal Years of Lead, he hunted down terrorist suspects with unmatched ferocity. But then the fighting stopped, and suddenly Canessa was a soldier without a war. 30 years later and he's settled into a life of calm by the sea - until some shattering news pulls him back in. His estranged brother has been found dead; lying beside him, the body of an ex-terrorist, a man Canessa himself caught. Returning to Milan, Canessa finds the rules of the game have changed: alliances have shifted and brute force won't cut it anymore. Trusting no-one, he launches an investigation into dense networks of corruption that will bring him right back to his own past.
[A] choice Italian noir, set in the Mafia wars and the Red Brigades in the Seventies and Eighties * Evening Standard, Best Summer Books *
The best noir yet on the years of terror in Italy * Corriere della Serra *
So rich in tones that I'd love to read it again * Amica *
The story grips and doesn't let go... [a] powerful and captivating novel * La Stampa *
ISBN: 9781782276210
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Weight: unknown
416 pages