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Le mani sugli occhi |
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| Ugo Barbāra |
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After a big job in which he risked losing everything, Vittorio Tanlongo disappeared for a few years. His wife Elisa, his three children and the half-hidden villa on Bracciano Lake are his only horizon. But the past does not forget. Some Russians for whom he did good business have tracked him down, demanding he work for them again. It's an offer Vittorio can't refuse: they've killed his right-hand man Teo and are holding his family hostage. In the mix are 30 billion in American bonds seized at the Swiss-Italian border and an investigation being led by judge Federica Assioli, the only woman Vittorio loved before his wife. The only woman, like his wife, that he does not want to deceive.
Ugo Barbāra (Palermo, 1971) works at the foreign desk of the Agenzia Giornalistica Italia and teaches creative writing at the La Sapienza University in Rome. His first published works were short stories, including Una questione donestā, La neve sui ciottoli and Fuoco e tempesta, and his debut novel was Desidero informarla che le abbiamo trovato un cuore (1999). Two years later he published La notte dei sospetti. In 2003 he wrote the screenplay to the film Gli angeli di Borsellino - Scorta QS21. His bibliography continued with the noir story Il nemico, which was part of the anthology Duri a morire; Luomo dei piccioli, in Memoria della Provincia; and La stiratrice di Saponara in the collection La scelta - storie da non dimenticare. He was a finalist for the 2008 Scerbanenco Prize with Il corruttore. He published his fourth novel, In terra consacrata, in 2009, and in 2010 the story Lavaro, in the anthology Seven.
www.ugobarbara.it
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