The Second Day of the Renaissance
Timothy Williams
ISBN: 9781616958985
Published: May, 2017
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Description
After decades as a police detective in his Northern Italian town, Commissario Piero Trotti has finally retired. But retirement brings no respite. An exiled hit man has returned to Italy to kill Trotti as retribution for a twenty-year-old tragedy. The man’s brother, one of Trotti’s informants, was slain by the mafia during a botched mu...
After decades as a police detective in his Northern Italian town, Commissario Piero Trotti has finally retired. But retirement brings no respite. An exiled hit man has returned to Italy to kill Trotti as retribution for a twenty-year-old tragedy. The man’s brother, one of Trotti’s informants, was slain by the mafia during a botched murder case—one that has haunted the commissario ever since.
Now on the run from a killer, Trotti resumes his cold-case investigation to find out who assassinated Valerio Gracchi, a prominent anti-mafia leftist radical. But even if he finds the right answers, will Trotti be able to save himself and his loved ones?
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“It's hard to resist Williams (Big Italy, 2015, etc.) as he unfolds his tale in tiny, deliciously wry narrative nuggets—100 titled chapters of puckish literary pointillism.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“[Williams] capture[s] the Northern Italian milieu with particular insight.”
—The Washington Post
“Like Henning Mankell’s The Troubled Man (2011), this leisurely paced novel is as much about an aging detective pondering his own mortality as it is about solving a crime . . . Williams successfully draws us into Trotti’s mind as he vacillates between despair and defiance.”