![]() Schneider’s achievement is to exploit and somewhat romanticize our vicarious attraction to such perverse purveyors of The American Dream. What’s more, Schneider shows he can not only do blunt action prose but lyrically evocative descriptions. Yes, there’s violence, but there’s also a love story here, that’s not only believable but heartwarming. They’re Mafia, but as The Godfatherand Tony Soprano proved, complex goodfellas can fascinate. And they’re not, in Anthony Schneider’s new novel, Lowdown. “Absorbing… almost non-stop reading because you care about the main characters, even if they’re not good. Spanning three decades and two continents, soaked in passion, blood and the garish colors of the mean streets, LOWDOWN is a vivid, gripping romantic thriller that follows a twisting road strewn with sorrow and desire, deceit and ecstasy, shocking violence and intimate tenderness. For Milena Cossutta, sexy and smart, it was selling out her dreams to marry a handsome but hot-headed made man, Vinnie DeNunzio, which left her on the run from the feds in Sicily, a stranger in a strange land. For Jimmy Paccini, savvy and cool-headed, it was joining the Brooklyn mob, the easy way out of a nowhere life that – for arranging the execution of the head of a rival crime family – rewarded him with a quarter-century of hard time. ![]() A romantic literary thriller that moves from Brooklyn mobsters to the lush beauty of Sicily, from murder to escape and a long shot at love and redemption.Īll it takes is one mistake. ![]()
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