The Second Shot (www.loveyourcountry.it Book 1)
Book Details
Author(s)CR Lloyd
ISBN / ASINB005G09UPU
ISBN-13978B005G09UP0
Sales Rank1,451,988
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The Second Shot is The Day of the Jackal for the Facebook generation. It’s a fast-paced thriller that powerfully conveys the sense of paranoia that pervades modern Italy.
It tells the story of Pietro Fabbri, an ordinary Italian from a small town near Florence who aged forty decides he's had enough and that it’s time to take action. Pietro has dedicated most of his life to political activism and his failure to bring about change has almost destroyed him. So he has given up and tried to shut out what is happening to his country. Then one drunken night, a friend, tired of the same old conversations criticising the government, challenges him to act: he lays down €65 on the bar and tells Pietro to go buy a gun and shoot the President himself. What starts as a joke, evolves into a plan, a plan to assassinate the President, using donations from Italians who feel the same way as him. Pietro’s plan will force him to step outside the law and into hiding, it will put his friends and family in danger, and will bring him into contact with the criminal underworld of Russia, France and Italy. He will have six months to put his plan into action and the police, six months to catch him. If he succeeds, he will change Italy forever.
Politics, history and an emotional personal journey interweave to create an intense story of patriotism and rebellion, told against a vividly drawn backdrop of Italian towns and cities and including characters that form part of the complex social, cultural and racial structures of twenty-first century Italy.
It tells the story of Pietro Fabbri, an ordinary Italian from a small town near Florence who aged forty decides he's had enough and that it’s time to take action. Pietro has dedicated most of his life to political activism and his failure to bring about change has almost destroyed him. So he has given up and tried to shut out what is happening to his country. Then one drunken night, a friend, tired of the same old conversations criticising the government, challenges him to act: he lays down €65 on the bar and tells Pietro to go buy a gun and shoot the President himself. What starts as a joke, evolves into a plan, a plan to assassinate the President, using donations from Italians who feel the same way as him. Pietro’s plan will force him to step outside the law and into hiding, it will put his friends and family in danger, and will bring him into contact with the criminal underworld of Russia, France and Italy. He will have six months to put his plan into action and the police, six months to catch him. If he succeeds, he will change Italy forever.
Politics, history and an emotional personal journey interweave to create an intense story of patriotism and rebellion, told against a vividly drawn backdrop of Italian towns and cities and including characters that form part of the complex social, cultural and racial structures of twenty-first century Italy.
