by Lorenzo Carcaterra · Simon & Schuster · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780743495745
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«Paradise City» is the suspense novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback (485 pages, in English).
Homicide detective Giancarlo Lo Manto travels to New York when his teenage niece, Paula, disappears in Manhattan. Lo Manto's investigation connects crime in Naples with New York's circles of power, where corruption thrives. For the poor of Naples, New York is the paradise city; for Lo Manto, it is a nightmare.
The work was originally published in 2004; this edition appeared in 2005.
For fans of police thrillers and crime suspense, with a Neapolitan detective as the protagonist.
Lorenzo Carcaterra is an American writer of Italian descent. Hell's Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted as a 1996 film of the same name. In April 2009, he joined True/Slant as a blogger. True/Slant ceased operations on July 31, 2010, after only being open for a little less than a year total.
