Past Is a Foreign Country

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A chilling portrait of a life spiralling into darkness from a rising star of international crime fiction. For fans of Patricia Highsmith, Jefferey Deaver and Donna Leon

Giorgio is a trainee lawyer with a glowing future as a magistrate, when he is befriended by philosophy student Francesco. Ace on the pitch, bronzed and jaded-eyed, Francesco is everyone's idle.

Slowly, insiduously, Francesco lures Giorgio into a world of cheap sex, casual violence and card-sharping. Then, one night, he suggests a way of expressing the deepest form of friendship between men. A kind of ritual sacrifice..

Giorgio is going to meet his destiny. Once and for all.

AUTHOR
Giorgio Carofiglio is an anti-Mafia prosecutor living in Bari, southern Italy. He began writing detective novels while dealing with a midlife crisis, and his prize-winning Involuntary Witness and A Walk in The Dark became instant best-sellers in Italy and have since been sold around the world. The Pst is a Foreign Country (winner of the Premio Bancarella) has sold over 20,000 copies in his native Italy thus far and is currently being filmed.

ISBN: 9781905847273
Author: CAROFIGLIO GIANRICO
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 03/09/2007
RRP: $32.95
Pages: 244
Dimension: 211mm X 137mm
Imprint: Old Street Publishing