The Animal Factory goes deep into San Quentin, a world of violence and paranoia, where territory and status are ever-changing and possibly fatal commodities. Ron Decker is a newbie, a drug dealer whos…
Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is on to Eddie and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide…
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectl…
With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially—kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam.
Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eye…
Kenny Gabriel is three years away from turning sixty, has forty-three quid in the bank and is occasionally employed to find people who would rather not be found. Broke, clientless and depressed, he kn…
A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the…
« Limonov n’est pas un personnage de fiction. Il existe. Je le connais. Il a été voyou en Ukraine ; idole de l’underground soviétique sous Brejnev ; clochard, puis valet de chambre d’un milliardaire à…
This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. The novel takes place in the space of four days in t…
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their tales. What…
Brescia 1954, arrivo della ventunesima Mille Miglia. In lontananza c'è un'auto rossa, inconfondibile, in testa. È la Lancia D24 di Alberto Ascari, il pilota più celebre e amato, campione del mondo per…
Shelve Fondocorsa - Mille miglia 1954. L’oro nero di Alberto Ascari
I condomini del comprensorio "Le Isole", complesso residenziale al numero 1043 della via Cassia, a Roma, si preparano a festeggiare l'anno nuovo. La vita è amara e va addolcita, occorre annegarla nell…
When a packed commuter train runs over a body on a stretch of track known to locals as ‘Suicide Mile’, it soon transpires that the man was a victim of a calculated murder. …
Protagonista è un ragazzo che fabbrica acquari e studia il comportamento dei pesci. Malato di cancro, si trascina abulico da una festa all'altra al seguito di una fidanzatina, nei quartieri alti di Ro…
There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, author, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling variety of creative fields. …
«C'era una parte poco frequentata delle edicole della stazione, quasi abbandonata, quella dei tascabili. Tra i libri accatastati, nascosti dietro un vetro, avvolti nella plastica e ricoperti di polvere…
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and…
»Ich bin Max Schulz, unehelicher, wenn auch rein arischer Sohn der Minna Schulz ...« So beginnt Edgar Hilsenraths berühmter Roman über den SS-Mann und Massenmörder, der in die Rolle seines Opfers Itzi…
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination—in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....
The Rings of Saturn — with its curious archive of photographs — records a walking tour along the east coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is a…
Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder—and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the w…
Young novelist Dave Newton is instantly smitten when he meets blonde, beautiful Peggy. But Peggy has a past full of abuse and terror—and she’s involved with Jerry, a lawyer with mob connections and an…
Il senso dello Stato è uno dei pilastri essenziali di qualsiasi società civile. Proprio a recuperare e consolidare il senso dello Stato in chi lo ha perduto, dedica da sempre la propria vita Giacinto …
Shelve Di cuore e di coraggio. Storia di una vita normale, ma non tanto – Ricordi di un direttore di carcere
“Settant’anni fa la Resistenza nacque da una scelta. Nel crollo delle istituzioni e dello stato, l’8 settembre del 1943 segnò per gli italiani una sorta di resa dei conti con se stessi. E fu quella sce…
Esiste un'isola nel Mediterraneo dove i ragazzi non scendono mai a mare. Ormeggiata come un vascello, Nisida è un carcere sull'acqua, ed è lì che Elisabetta Maiorano insegna matematica a un gruppo di …
C'è un farmacista sospettoso: forse un dipendente gli ruba soldi dalla cassa. C'è anche una madre in pena: sua figlia è scomparsa e bisogna assolutamente ritrovarla. Eugène Tarpon, perennemente alle p…
