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The second novel in Izzo’s acclaimedMarseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to theauthor’s beloved city, in all its colour andcomplexity. Fabio Montale is an unwittinghero in this city of melancholy beauty.Fabio Montale has left a police force marredby corruption, xenophobia, and greed. Butgetting out is not going to be so easy. Whenhis cousin’s son goes missing, Montale isdragged back onto the mean streets of aviolent, crime-infested Marseilles. To discoverthe truth about the boy’s disappearance,he infiltrates a dangerous underworld ofmobsters, religious fanatics, crooked cops,and ordinary people whom desperation hasdriven to extremes.Â
