Scots-Italian Andrew Caruso has been a second-hand book dealer in Rome for thirty years when a collection of thirty-year-old photographs changes his life forever. He finds the photos when clearing up his Belgian ex-lover's possessions - Michel, the photographer he called Tintin, whose death may have been suicide or accident. The images - possibly from police archives - are fascinating, but when Andrew and his artist friend Daniela decide to launch an exhibition, the police raid the shop the day before the opening, seizing ...
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Scots-Italian Andrew Caruso has been a second-hand book dealer in Rome for thirty years when a collection of thirty-year-old photographs changes his life forever. He finds the photos when clearing up his Belgian ex-lover's possessions - Michel, the photographer he called Tintin, whose death may have been suicide or accident. The images - possibly from police archives - are fascinating, but when Andrew and his artist friend Daniela decide to launch an exhibition, the police raid the shop the day before the opening, seizing the photographs with surprising violence. Who wants to keep the photos hidden? And why? Is it to do with the Mafia? The Government? The Vatican? Or all three? Andrew is drawn into a world in which kidnap, subterfuge and even murder are the norm, a world of political, religious and criminal intrigue in which no one is safe, or above suspicion. He crosses paths with Alessandro, a journalist who knows more about the photographs than Andrew can imagine, and who offers not only information but also hope. Meanwhile, in a cellar, a kidnapped girl hopes desperately for rescue.... Based around real events that took place in Rome in February 2008, Charles Lambert's second novel is both gripping and exhilerating; brilliant and hard-edged, it clearly marks Lambert as a name to note. 'Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it. He takes risks at every turn' Hannah Tinti
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