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"An ironic and relentless thriller. A chase that won't let you catch your breath until the last page." Carlo Lucarelli"Pure delight. Frenetic, savagely funny, this is first rate and witty entertainment" The Guardian"The dripping of blood and the angle of a broken neck are described as lovingly as the preparation of a nice eggplant parmigiana." New Yorker'A BLACK COMEDY IN THE STYLE OF QUENTIN TARANTINO' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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A thrilling black comedy; Leila, a young, beautiful hustler gets caught up in the centre of a political blackmail plot when a document ends up in her hands. In an intense environment of paranoia, secret service operatives, a goon hired by the blackmailer and the police all persue Leila to retrieve the document and suitcase of money for the pay-off. She joins forces with Francesco,a bus driver and gambling addict on the run from a debt collector. The frenetic pace is set against a backdrop of torture and murder.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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This really is a very good book, in the Elmore Leonard or George Pelecanos vein - although less dialogue-based than Leonard and a better ending than Pelecanos usually comes up with! Very punchy, well observed, exciting plot and also very darkly funny in places. Nicely translated from the Italian, this book deserves much more publicity than it will get.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Set in Bologna, Italy, this is a fast paced story. The adventure begins from the first page, which was fantastic for me, as I can get bored by legthy introductions. The book begins jumping between a few different characters, following them in their journey until the unravelling begins and they are all somehow brought together/linked; through their actions. Dark and decriptive, including frequent violence. Not for the faint hearted!
A good read. Picked up on a whim, whilst passing thru waterstones, as fancied something a bit different. Throughly enjoyed : )
A good read. Picked up on a whim, whilst passing thru waterstones, as fancied something a bit different. Throughly enjoyed : )
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Giampiero Rigosi's Night Bus is about two rootless characters and seedy Bologna. Leila is thirty-ish, pretty, a hunter of men's wallets (she picks up her marks, drugs them and absconds with their money). Francesco is a bus-driver with a gambling addiction. There is a politician who is being blackmailed and who has arranged for payment to be made in return for the incriminating document. There are secret service agents, no better than thugs, who are after the blackmailers so that they can make case against the politician. Another agent, slightly better than a thug, works for the politician, and wants to ensure a smooth transfer with the blackmailers. Leila unknowingly gets her hand on the documents after seducing one of the blackmailers. Meanwhile Francesco is being chased by a giant of a man to repay his gambling debts. The disparate story-lines, written in staccato fashion, serve very well to maintain tension, and do converge in a collection of set-pieces that are both hair-raising and funny. Rigosi has a considerable affection for Quentin Tarantino, I guess, evident both in the action-film-script-like prose and in surreal touches of humour (e.g., the secret service thugs take a break from violence to make pasta). Good stuff.
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Fast-paced thriller
Though this book is 350 pages long, I easily finished it in a week-end. The story is told chronologically, with times as chapter headings. Read more
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I'm only half way through and I have to say it's one of the best books I read for a long time. It has a good pace and follows multiple characters and hops from scene to scene quite... Read more
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