Achille Peroni loves the spicy food and passionate arguments of southern Italy, land of his birth. But fate -- and the Italian police force -- have stuck him in Verona, a city of bean soup and endless problems with the Red Brigades, a vicious gang that relies on bombs and high-profile kidnappings to further its rather fuzzy political aims. When a wealthy general, head of one of Italy's finest Fascist families, goes missing from his palatial estate, the Reds are the most obvious suspects. But Peroni finds himself considering a crime far more subtle and sinister than anything the Reds can dream up. A crime, in fact, the leads all the way back to Romeo and Juliet, the most famous Vernoseses of them all.
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Review:
"The characters are delightfully etched, and Verona is bewitchingly presented" --Daily Telegraph (UK)
"The Montagues and Capulets return to life in a rich ambiance of neo-Fascism, corruption and murder...stylish done" --The Observer (UK)
"Peroni, an Anglophilic Italian, is a genuine find, an original and unusual hero" --Times of London (UK)
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- PublisherCoward, McCann & Geoghegan
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0698110528
- ISBN 13 9780698110526
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages223
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