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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Fabric Type: 9781933372044
Legal Disclaimer: 1933372044
Maximum Color Depth: Europa Editions
Metal Type: Europa Editions
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 256
Total External Bays Free: November 01, 2005
Total Firewire Ports: Europa Editions
Europa Editions
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"Jean-Claude Izzo's . . . growing literary renown and huge sales are leading to a recognizable new trend in continental fiction: the rise of the sophisticated Mediterranean thriller. . . . Caught between pride and crime, racism and fraternity, tragedy and light, messy urbanization and generous beauty, the city for [detective Fabio Montale] is a Utopia, an ultimate port of call for exiles. There, he is torn between fatalism and revolt, despair and sensualism."-The Economist
This first installment in the legendary Marseilles Trilogy sees Fabio Montale turning his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and taking the fight against the mafia into his own hands.
Jean-Claude Izzo achieved astoundingly rapid success with his Marseilles Trilogy. He died in Marseilles in 2000 at the age of 55.
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I was looking for a new series to read after workimng my way through the Donna Leon / Commissario Brunetti books. The owner of Partners and Crime in NYC recommended Izzo's short series because, he said, it had crisp writing (true) and a strong sense of place (also true). The plot, such as it is, revolves around family, honor, revenge, race and love (or lust). As Fabio Montale - a model French anti-hero - staggers from scene to scene, made crazy by drink, the heat, lack of sleep and desperation, we ... Read More
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Fabio Montale, the protagonist/narrator of this murder mystery cum love story, is a cop in the French port city of Marseille. Son of Italian immigrants, he had a chequered career with the military that landed him eventually the job of neighbourhood cop. Not any neighbourhood, mind you, but the Arab ghetto, the centre of the city's large underbelly. The recent murders of his closest friends challenge his soft mediator mentality and revenge is increasingly on his mind. Jean-Claude Izzo, a native ... Read More
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Jean-Claude Izzo's Spartan writing hits the perfect pitch in this classic hardboiled detective story. The first volume of the Marseilles Trilogy, "Total Chaos" introduces Fabio Montale, a disillusioned cop attempting to resolve the murders of his boyhood chums, Ugo and Manu. By a quirk of fate Fabio became a cop while his pals followed a path of crime that led to their deaths.
Along the way the reader gets an account of these sons of Italian immigrants growing up on the hard streets of ... Read More
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"Total Chaos" will satisfy most mystery readers and probably seriously please any francophile or Marseilles-phile. First and foremost, the book is a biography of the city of Marseilles, with its history, geography, demography and cuisine front and center. Imposed on this intensely interesting backdrop is a very dark crime/police procedural that takes the reader through a labyrinth of relationships and characters before arriving at a very creative ending. Love, lust, betrayal and hatred are part of ... Read More
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Zinedine Zidane
Jean-Claude Izzo, like French footballer Zidane, is a native of Marseilles. He was born in Marseille in 1945. Because he was the son of Spanish and Italian immigrants, Izzo was streamed into vocational school where he trained to be a lathe operator. After serving in the military he returned to Marseilles where he eventually turned to writing. His books have been remarkably successful in France and have been the subject of films and t.v. shows. He died, at age 54, in Marseilles. ... Read More
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