In the Name of Ishmael, Giuseppe Genna
In the Name of Ishmael, Giuseppe Genna
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In the Name of Ishmael

Author: Giuseppe Genna

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 13 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2005

Synopsis

A dark, complex thriller set in fogbound, wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set out to reveal the true identity of Ishmael, the groups heavily protected and enigmatic leader.

About Giuseppe Genna

Giuseppe Genna was born in Milan in 1969. He has worked in Italian television and was the editor-in-chief of Poesia, a literary journal. In the Name of Ishmael is his first US publication.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

A Dan Brown type of thriller. The author takes a dozen or so real assassinations (Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minster) along with speculative assassinations (Pope John Paul I, Princess Diana), failed assassinations (Pope John Paul II) and some imagined ones (Henry Kissinger) and weaves a plot of a Eur......more

Goodreads review by David

This Italian novel capitalizes on Anti-Americanism in Europe. Like a lot of conspiracy thrillers, it's weak on plot logic and plausibility. Genna and his translator do great atmospherics, playing with glare and shadow, fog and rot. He makes cruelty erotic and takes a keen interest in bodily excretio......more

Goodreads review by Kin

Più che una spystory un “j'accuse”.Interferenze della politica statunitense in Italia e in Europa dal dopoguerra ad oggi. Mattei, Gladio, stragi di stato. Connivenze ed insabbiamenti.Allegorico.......more

Goodreads review by Gi

Due linee temporali ben distinte, ottimo intreccio. Noir storico dalle tinte decisamente scure, che in taluni frangenti ostenta inutilmente troppa crudezza.......more

Goodreads review by Mario

Ya......more

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