The American

A 2nd thriller in the series featuring Leone Scamarcio, set in Rome. Follows the success of "The Few", and will appeal to fans of Donna Leon and Andrea Carmilleri.

About the author

Nadia Dalbuono has spent the last eighteen years working as a documentary director and consultant for Channel 4, ITV, Discovery, and National Geographic in various countries. The Devil is the fifth book in the Leone Scamarcio series, following The Few, The American, The Hit, and The Extremist. She divides her time between the UK and northern Italy.

Summary

The second Leone Scamarcio thriller.

As autumn sets in, the queues outside the soup kitchens of Rome are lengthening, and the people are taking to the piazzas, increasingly frustrated by the deepening economic crisis.

When Detective Leone Scamarcio is called to an apparent suicide on the Ponte Sant’Angelo, a stone’s throw from Vatican City, the dead man's expensive suit suggests yet another businessman fallen on hard times. But Scamarcio is immediately troubled by similarities with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, dubbed ‘God’s Banker’ because of his work for the Vatican Bank.

When, days later, a cardinal with links to the bank is killed, and the CIA send a couple of heavies to warn him off the case, Scamarcio knows he’s onto something big.

As disturbing connections between 9/11, America’s dirty wars, Vatican corruption, the Mafia,  and Italy’s violence against its own people begin to emerge, Scamarcio is forced to deal with responsibilities far above his pay grade — in this tightly plotted mystery full of political intrigue.

Foreword

The second Leone Scamarcio thriller.

Additional text

‘A rollercoaster ride … Unsettling but compelling.’

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Dalbuono
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781925228199
• ISBN: 978-1-925228-19-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Leone Scamarcio
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Political, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime & mystery fiction, Political / legal thriller, Crime & mystery: police procedural, Vatican bank