Bandit Love (World Noir)

Closing the door on a crime ridden past, Marco Buratti plans to spend the rest of his days in the darkness of a seedy nightclub sipping Calvados and listening to the blues at a nightclub he owns with his former partner in crime, Max la Memoria. But when the girlfriend of Burratti's closet friend is kidnapped, Buratti learns that however much he thinks he's through with the past, the past will never be through with him.A shadowy cartel of criminal organizations has orchestrated the kidnapping in order to blackmail Buratti into helping them investigate the disappearance of a stockpile of narcotics from a research facility, an investigation that will throw him headfirst into the underworld he had been struggling to escape. Here, new and old criminal organizations collide and innocent bystanders are as hard to find as honest cops. Marco "The Alligator" Buratti is not only one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary crime fiction but also the ideal vivisectionist of a world in which criminals hold all the cards.