A chilling portrait of a life spiralling into darkness from a rising star of international crime fiction. For fans of Patricia Highsmith, Jefferey Deaver and Donna Leon Giorgio is a trainee lawyer with a glowing future as a magistrate, when he is befriended by philosophy student Francesco. Ace on the pitch, bronzed and jaded-eyed, Francesco is everyone's idle. Slowly, insiduously, Francesco lures Giorgio into a world of cheap sex, casual violence and card-sharping. Then, one night, he suggests a way of expressing the deepest form of friendship between men. A kind of ritual sacrifice.. Giorgio is going to meet his destiny. Once and for all. AUTHOR Giorgio Carofiglio is an anti-Mafia prosecutor living in Bari, southern Italy. He began writing detective novels while dealing with a midlife crisis, and his prize-winning Involuntary Witness and A Walk in The Dark became instant best-sellers in Italy and have since been sold around the world. The Pst is a Foreign Country (winner of the Premio Bancarella) has sold over 20,000 copies in his native Italy thus far and is currently being filmed.
