Escape

Dominique Manotti; Trans. Amanda Hopkinson; Ros Schwartz

ISBN 10: 1909807559 / ISBN 13: 9781909807556

Published by Arcadia, 2014

About this Item

Filippo, an escaped prisoner, writes down a story a fellow inmate told him about the leader of an Italian terrorist group. The book is published, and though Filippo maintains it is fiction, the police don?t believe him. Slightly off-mint.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Escape
• Publisher: Arcadia
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909807559
• ISBN 13: 9781909807556
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New - Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

It's 1987. Two prisoners, both Italian, break out of prison in a rubbish lorry. One heads for Paris, the other to Milan. The first Carlo, is killed in a shoot-out during a bank robbery - under suspicious circumstances. Frightened by the manhunt launched by Interpol, the second prisoner, Filippo, returns to Paris where he becomes a security guard. He spends his nights writing the story of a Red Brigadier, as recounted to him in prison by Carlo. His landlady Cristina finds him a publisher and the book becomes a bestseller. Filippo, carefully coached by his publishers press office, steadfastly refuses to own the story, insisting that all his stories are fiction and that this is a work of imagination. The public don t buy it, neither do the police, and dogged investigations begin to produce the reasons why. Ultimately Filippo cannot escape his fate: that of a man with an assumed identity that carries far greater risks than his own.

About the Author

Dominique Manotti is a professor of 19th-century economic history in Paris. She is also the author of several novels including Rough Trade, Dead Horsemeat (short-listed for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award), Lorraine Connection (which won the International Dagger Award and was nominated for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards), and Affairs of State.