if, like me, you love the American thrillers, you will be disappointed at first ... then over the reading to be intrigued ... sometimes end at the limit of sustainability as some scenes are "alive" !!! I was very pleasantly surprised at the end of this author that I did not know. His hero, the Italian policeman dark, qu'atttachant is more like the victim he is desperate to extricate from the clutches of his tormentor.