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.