From a bestselling Italian author comes a sharply observed new mystery set in the seedy underworld of 1970s Milan
Giorgio Faletti's first thriller, I Kill, took Europe by storm, selling over five million copies. The Corriere della Sera, Italy's leading newspaper, crowned him "the greatest Italian writer." In 2010, with the explosive publication of A Pimp's Notes, Faletti won international celebrity as a writer of world-class, tightly wound, psychologically nuanced thrillers.
It's 1978. Italy has just been shocked by the kidnapping of the politician Aldo Moro by the left-leaning terrorist group the Red Brigades. In Milan, the upper class continues to amuse itself in luxury restaurants, underground clubs, and cabarets. This is Bravo's milieu. Enigmatic and cynical, Bravo makes his living catering to the tastes, fantasies, and fetishes of the wealthy and depraved. When the mysterious Carla enters his life, what begins as a clandestine romance quickly becomes a nightmare that will transform Bravo into a man wanted by the police, by organized crime, and even by the Red Brigades. As the web around him tightens, Bravo will be forced to confront the violence of the times in which he lives as well as his own connections to the political and criminal networks that control contemporary Italy.
"Narrated by the titular Bravo (who seems to be equal parts Dante's Virgil and Hemingway's Jake Barnes), A Pimp's Notes is an intense and captivating journey, sly, insightful, and sinister, through a dark and treacherous underworld. It's a strange tale fueled by lightning-crack, whiplash-inducing twists that'll have you talking back to the pages. Bravo is a smart and feral voice."
Bill Loehfelm, author of The Devil She Knows
"[A Pimp's Notes] has the power of a thriller, the efficacy of an atmospheric portrait, the poignant seduction of a noir. And it draws its force . . . from the fact that it recounts people, places, atmospheres that the author knows well, as they are part of his own past."
Gloria Satta, Il Messaggero
"A Pimp's Notes is a nuanced but explosive thriller by one of the world's new crime masters. A great read."
