On the way to other things, I noticed
The Colombian Mule, which is the first in the Alligator series by Massimo Carlotto. This isn't usually my sort of thing, but it looked interesting for some reason, and it's on sale at $1.99, so here's a post. (I actually think it caught my eye because the cover is a similar yellow to the ebook covers of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Pepe Carvalho series, which I do like a lot...go figure...)
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079MG54MF
Kobo US (VIP/couponable):
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-colombian-mule-5
Spoiler:
Quote:
“Think The Sopranos meets Goodfellas—without the Americanized gloss . . . [A] not-for-the-faint-hearted novel by an Italian master” (Reading Matters).
In The Colombian Mule, the author called “the reigning king of Mediterranean noir” (The Boston Phoenix) and “the best living Italian crime writer” (Il Manifesto) brings to riveting life the story of Arías Cuevas, who sets in motion a chain of bloody events when police catch him trying to carry a shipment of La Tía’s cocaine into Italy. The intended recipient of the coke appears to have been art smuggler Nazzareno Corradi. But Corradi has been set up. He hires a PI known as “the Alligator” to get him out of the mess he’s in. Meanwhile, La Tía, a notoriously ruthless figure in the Colombian drug trade, is determined to move her operation to Italy, where cocaine has become all the rage among the professional classes. There’s only one thing standing in her way: the Alligator.
The Alligator, an ex-con-turned-investigator, and his two companions, former underworld heavy Beniamino Rossini and Max the Memory, are among Massimo Carlotto’s most vivid noir creations. Together, the three men will wade deep into a criminal world of few scruples, testing their own strict and specific moral code along the way.
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