- Publisher: Arcadia
- Year: 2014
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 170pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 214x134mm
- Condition: New - Very Good
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781909807556
- Product code: 513539
Escape
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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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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.
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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. <i>Slightly off-mint.</i>
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Dominique Manotti, Ros Schwartz, Trans. Amanda Hopkinson
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214x134mm
Arcadia
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Paperback
