The Root of All Evil

Zusatztext 'Gripping' The Sun . Informationen zum Autor Roberto Costantini was born in Tripoli in 1952. Formerly an engineer and business consultant, he is now a manager of the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, where he also teaches on the MBA program. Klappentext Tripoli, 1960s. During the years in which post-colonial Libya fell prey to the sprawling greed of the West, Michele Balistreri suffered a succession of blows that would scar him for life. The death of his mother; the unspeakable horror that befell his best friend's family; his father's role in Gaddafi's ascent to power; and the innocent blood pact that would corrupt the course of his future. Rome, 1982. In the wake of a ruinous blunder, a ground-down Commissario Balistreri escapes his regrets through sex, alcohol and gambling. His sole responsibilities are now a stilted investigation into the death of a South American student, and a tiresome obligation - as a gratitude to the man who saved his career - to a rising television starlet needing protection from the pitfalls of fame. As the risks to this girl, Claudia Teodori, begin to rise along with her reputation, the sorrows of Balistreri's past also start to push back into his present. Both of their fates are inextricably linked - and this driven, obsessive young woman must help this damaged detective fight a foe that follows her and refuses to forget him. Zusammenfassung Book two of the Commissario Balistreri trilogy traces his youth in North Africa! and his first exposure to the horrors that grow from human hardship.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Costantini, Roberto Costantini, Costantini Roberto
• Assisted by: N. S. Thompson (Translation), N.S. Thompson (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9780857389367
• ISBN: 978-0-85738-936-7
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Commissario Balistreri; Commissario Balistreri Trilogy; Commissario Balistreri Trilogy; Commissario Balistreri
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Italienische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Crime and mystery fiction