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This novel, by one of Italy's bestselling crime novelists, provides a unique perspective on the criminal and social dynamics that dominate contemporary Italy. One of the many robberies that plague Northeast Italy goes wrong and ends with a brutal murder. The police investigation turns up nothing. Two years later, Marco Buratti, alias ';the Alligator,' is asked to look into the crime and find out who was responsible. Buratti's employer is young, the youngest client he has ever had; he is only twelve years old and is the son of one of the victims. The Alligator realizes right from the start that the truth is cloaked, twisted, shocking. Together with his associates, Beniamino Rossini and Max the Memory, he finds himself mixed up in a story involving contraband gold and blood vendettas between criminal gangs.

PI Marco "e;the Alligator"e; Buratti returns in a "e;raucous, delicious ride"e; from the celebrated Italian crime writer and author of Bandit Love (Cedar Rapids Gazette).Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a trace. After a few months of searching, the police send his file to the cold cases department to be thrown in with the files of other missing persons. One woman knows the truth about his disappearance, but, being the daughter of a prominent and wealthy Swiss industrialist, she fears coming forward with what she knows: that she was his lover and that there is more to his disappearance than another bored suburban husband running out on his wife. Stricken by guilt, she finally confides in a lawyer who advises her to turn to Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator, for help.Buratti agrees to assist the woman. Initially, the case of the woman's missing lover seems like a lost cause, but a clue puts the Alligator and his trusted associates, Max the Memory and Beniamino Rossini, on the trail of the unscrupulous and brilliant criminal, Giorgio Pellegrini, protagonist of The Goodbye Kiss and At the End of a Dull Day.The deadly game of chicken in which the good guys and the bad guys are often hard to tell apart is Carlotto's specialty. But good or bad, these men are survivors in a world where the once ironclad criminal codes of conduct are disappearing and new criminal syndicates do vicious battle with old."e;A shaded caper and an earnest investigation into the nature of evil that reads like a runaway train, and confirms Carlotto as equal to any of the English-writing czars of noir."e; -LoveReading"e;Gang of Lovers is Italian 'hard boiled' noir but with the shell left on."e; -Crime Scraps Review

';Think The Sopranos meets Goodfellaswithout 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 Aras Cuevas, who sets in motion a chain of bloody events when police catch him trying to carry a shipment of La Ta'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 Ta, 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. ';The morally ambiguous tone makes this an intriguing read, and the suspense is well maintained.' Manchester Evening News ';A fascinating glimpse into Italian culture and justice system. It's sparely written and though quite short, there's a lot of action ... dark and gritty.' Euro Crime ';[A] brilliant book.' The Friendly Shelf