
He had an old wound on his left side, a reminder of his former life as Lt. Annibale and his aunt owned and ran one of San Fruttuso's three restaurants. The beautiful small village was only accessible by boat or on foot. He kept a "safe haven" to live in outside Rapallo, part of the "Canessa Network" of old friends, or people who owed him their life or Annibale Canessa, fifty-three years old, was living the good life in San Fruttuso, near the Ligurian Riviera. moreĪnnibale Canessa, fifty-three years old, was living the good life in San Fruttuso, near the Ligurian Riviera. Back in Milan, Canessa must pursue old connections and unsolved crimes, which draw him ever deeper into the underworld he thought he’d left behind…. His life was calm.īut some shattering news pulls him back in - his estranged brother has been found dead lying beside him, the body of an ex-terrorist, a man Canessa himself caught. He started swimming in the bay at dawn and helping his elderly aunt run a small restaurant. When everything went wrong in 1984, he traded his brutal, exciting career in the Carabinieri for paradise in San Fruttuoso.


When everything went wrong in 1984, he traded his brutal, exciting career in the Carabinieri for paradise Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thriller from one of Italy’s top crime writers, and the second book in Pushkin Press’s collaboration with Walter PresentsĪnnibale Canessa didn’t want to go back to his old life.

Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thriller from one of Italy’s top crime writers, and the second book in Pushkin Press’s collaboration with Walter Presents Annibale Canessa didn’t want to go back to his old life.
