Paradise City - Softcover

Carcaterra, Lorenzo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743495748 ISBN 13: 9780743495745

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2005

Synopsis

Giancarlo Lo Manto is the toughest cop on the toughest beat in Europe - a detective in the Naples homicide squad, dedicated to bringing down the mob. But what hurts the gangsters in the old country hurts them in the new world too. In the highest towers of the most expensive streets in New York City, Lo Manto is becoming a problem. When Lo Manto learns his teenage niece, Paula, has gone missing in Manhattan, the two worlds, the two cities, are set to collide. The poor of Naples call New York Paradise City. For Gian Lo Manto, coming to the City is a journey into hell.

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Paradise City

Review:

"No one captures the sound and sense of the streets of New York City like Lorenzo Carcaterra. More than any other New York--based crime writer, he gets the city. His characters sound like the real thing, whether cops or criminals. Paradise City is Carcaterra at his best: an action-packed page-turner with a real hero at its center."
-GARY FIDEL, executive assistant district attorney, Queens County District Attorney's Office; technical adviser, Law & Order

"Few writers on the scene today weave a yarn with such relentless fervor as Lorenzo Carcaterra. His characters emerge from the page and enter the room with you, compassionate and honest, whispering in your ear, their dialogue as hard as a diamond cutter, their stories as compelling as a killer's confession. That's because Carcaterra has walked the walk, talked the talk, and lived the stories whereof he writes. So take a deep breath, hang on for dear life, and go for the ride wherever he may take you."
-WILLIAM DIEHL

From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743495748
• ISBN 13: 9780743495745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496