Suburra / Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: World noirPublisher: New York : Europa Editions, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 521 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781609454074Uniform titles: Suburra. English. Subject(s): Political corruption -- Italy -- Rome -- Fiction | Organized crime -- Fiction | Mafia -- Fiction | Rome (Italy) -- History -- 21st century -- FictionGenre/Form: Noir fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 851/.914 Summary: Suburra takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize--control over a multibillion dollar development twenty miles from the Italian capital. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a massive development proposal that will turn the depressed coastal settlement of Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates. It's business as usual in the Italian capital. Or so it seems. A vicious gang of local thugs loyal to nobody but themselves is insisting on a bigger cut than agreed upon. The Mafia and their political puppets aren't going to back down without a fight.
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Original title: Suburra.
Translated from Italian.
Suburra takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize--control over a multibillion dollar development twenty miles from the Italian capital. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a massive development proposal that will turn the depressed coastal settlement of Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates. It's business as usual in the Italian capital. Or so it seems. A vicious gang of local thugs loyal to nobody but themselves is insisting on a bigger cut than agreed upon. The Mafia and their political puppets aren't going to back down without a fight.
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