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Paradise City
by Lorenzo Carcaterra
ISBN: 0345410971
ISBN-13: 9780345410979
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
An organized crime family pursues a vendetta against a Neapolitan cop in this hardboiled crime novel. After his father was killed by the mob family known as the Camorra, Giancarlo Lo Manto's mother moved them both from New York back to the family home in Italy. Now a tough homicide cop in Naples, Lo Manto's personal life once again intersects with the Camorra when they bait him into returning to New York by kidnapping his niece Paula, who's studying in that city. The author also wrote the bestselling book SLEEPERS, and served as a writer/producer for the TV series LAW & ORDER.
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"Over the top in every department, but packed with enough guts and gusto to carry twice the weight." -- Philip Oakes
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 2004
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Pages: 336
Publisher's Notes
The most exciting achievement to date from the acclaimed author of Sleepers and Gangster, Paradise City is a riveting thriller of two cops and two countries, a stunning crime novel about the roots of revenge, honor, and evil.
As a fifteen-year-old, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice the hard way. His father was gunned down by the Camorra, the murderous clan run by Don Nicola Rossi. When his mother moved him from New York back to his family’s ancestral home in Naples, Gian found himself face-to-face with the source of the mob’s strength, the spring that spawned its deadly killers.
Today, twenty-three years later, he is a dogged detective on the Naples police force, homicide division, the most dangerous beat in Europe. He is the nemesis of all who export evil, the man who stops it before it spreads overseas. His efforts have not gone unnoticed. “The strength of Naples reinforces the muscle of New York”–and now the two worlds are about to collide.
In the highest towers of the most expensive streets of New York City, Pete Rossi, the son of Don Nicola, has decided to bring Gian back to America–permanently. When Gian learns that his teenage niece, Paula, has gone missing in Manhattan, he cancels a much-needed vacation to Capri, to paradise, joking that “one island is just as good as the other.”
Gian’s homecoming will be anything but smooth. Someone must always watch his back, and Detective Jennifer Fabini gets the job. A gifted officer with her own personal demons, Jennifer thinks she’ll be dealing with a peasant from the old country. The handsome, reserved, unrelenting Gian is a revelation: an irritant and a temptation–especially for a woman who has sworn off cops as lovers. Together the two must solve a disappearance that appears to be a kidnapping . . . but turns out to be a deadly trap.
As they dash from the sun-struck villages of Italy to the darkest drug dens of New York, their journey links old-world honor and modern-day danger, and ends in a dizzying explosion of the present and the past. Paradise City is Lorenzo Carcaterra’s richest entertainment, a book that is at once a sensational crime novel and a provocative exploration of his trademark themes: violence and innocence, love and revenge.
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Carcaterra, Lorenzo
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004 Softcover advance reader's edition. Fair condition due to repaired binding - pages are uneven. Cover and rest of book have minor wear only. Reading copy. From the author of Sleepers, and writer and producer for Law & Order.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). ( more information)
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Ballantine Books. Used - Acceptable. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 2004. SOFTCOVER. Acceptable condition reading copy showing definate wear. All pages plus cover present. THIS IS A SOFTCOVER BOOK !. ( more information)
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CARCATERRA, LORENZO
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Ballantine Books. Hardcover. 0345410971 Excellent Condition First Edition ~ 1st Printing Hard cover book with paper dust jacket cover! Clean pages, Dust jacket has no tears, mild shelf rubs, this book is Near NEW! Shop & Save with us at kjcactusbooks! . Fine. ( more information)
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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2004 Pages are bright and clean. Binding is tight with no cracks or breaks. Very nice reading copy. . Advanced Readers Copy/uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ( more information)
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Paradise City: A Novel
Carcaterra, Lorenzo
Ballantine Books,, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. Number line shows a 1 indicating first printing. This book is from a private collection and was read but one time. It is in Fine/Fine condition. The book's boards are clean and unbumped. The spine is tight and all pages are white and clean. The DJ has NOT been price clipped and has no rips or tears. This is NOT a remainder. This is NOT ex-library. A very attractive and collectible copy. ( more information)
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Paradise City: A Novel Of Suspense
Carcaterra, Lorenzo
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2004. Hardcover, 335 pages with dustjacket in fine condition. 1st edition, 1st printing, Sept. 2004. An action packed page turner, set in New York city, with a real hero at it's center. A riveting tale of law and disorder in the city that never sleeps. Author is the writer and producer for the TV show Law and Order. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Paradise City
Lorenzo Carcaterra
PARADISE CITYAdvance Reader's EditionGiancarlo Lo Manto is a Naples police inspector, working homicide and narcotics. When his niece goes missing in New York City, Lo Manto arranges for a temporary assignment to the NYPD. Lo Manto lived in New York until he was fourteen. And he knows the city streets. In Manhattan--"Paradise City"--Lo Manto is partnered with Jennifer Fabini, a ten-year veteran of the police force. As they work the missing-person case, they encounter long-buried crimes connected to Lo Manto's past--a past of which even he is unaware. And when their search brings them up against a Mafia don, a decades-long blood feud is reignited. ( more information)
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Carcaterra, Lorenzo
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. 1st edition, 1st printing. With corresponding number line. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. ( more information)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2004. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.. ISBN: 0345410971. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FICTION. ( more information)
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Carcaterra, Lorenzo
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004 A fine copy, new and unread, in a fine dust jacket, now in a clear removable protective cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a well padded, sturdy box. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 09-29-04, the month of publication.. Signed by Author. First Edition - First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Ballantine Bks., 2004. SIGNED, a fine book and dustjacket in Brodart. Giancarlo LoManto was born and raised in New York up to the age of fourteen, when he and his family moved to a small Italian town. He then became a homicide detective in Naples, but finds himself back in his birthplace when his niece disappears, and it becomes clear that a Mob kingpin with connections to the Naples crime syndicate seems to have been behind her disappearance.. ISBN: 0345410971. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED, FICTION. ( more information)
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Ballantine Books. Hardcover. 0345410971 THIS IS A SIGNED HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. THE BOOK AND THE DUST JACKET ARE FINE/FINE, LIKE NEW, NO DEFECTS INSIDE OR OUT. THE BOOK IS SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY THE AUTHOR. . New. ( more information)
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Carcaterra, Lorenzo
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2004. A 335 thriller set in Naples, Italy and New York City by the author of Sleepers. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 09.29.04. As new and unread. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear mylar cover.. ISBN: 0345410971. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Naples, Italy, New York, Homicide Detectives, Kisnapping, Revenge. ( more information)
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