Book Two in the Marseilles Trilogy
This second novel in Izzo's acclaimed Marseilles trilogy is a touching
tribute to the author's beloved city, in all its color and complexity.
Fabio Montale is an unwitting hero in this city of melancholy beauty.
Fabio Montale has left a police force marred by corruption, xenophobia
and greed. But getting out is not going to be so easy. When his cousin's
son goes missing, Montale is dragged back onto the mean streets of a
violent, crime-infested Marseilles. To discover the truth about the
boy's disappearance, he infiltrates a dangerous underworld of mobsters,
religious fanatics, crooked cops and ordinary people driven to extremes
by desperation.