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caressing - Massimo Lugli (Newton Compton 2010)

There was a lot waiting for the new work by this author of the thriller scene / Noir. Many were hoping for a third episode of the epic the "wolf" but not many were convinced and some (including this writer) was equipped with the curiosity to appreciate the qualities praised in July on other land and people.
The output of "The caressing" has satisfied the latter, including myself, feeding the already eager curiosity and bringing it to climax with the inclusion of the novel in the quintet of the final of the Witch. " A mountain of expectation that is partially caved in on the hopes and made part of the wetland review author. Since the first pages you are immersed in the universe raw discovering the author's style with a hint of disgust the first acts of the serial killer guy.
Tensions immediate and palpable and is cloaked in a good omen for the rest of the reading. The protagonist appears to us now a refreshing change, a young aspiring journalist, Marco Corvino, full of rich content and structure and certainly far from the famous and "outcast" Wolf. It is expected therefore to be sucked into a vortex of small black and atrocities, suspense and Zen philosophy, but it remains a little 'disappointed. From mid-volume even then, the graph of expectations begins to decline inexorably towards a record noir that does not give place to new and interesting story, so as to bring the reader to identify more non-serial killer in the true over-the text of the narrative moving any attention and condition of the biographical events and the young protagonist trying greatest tension while reading the stories of crime he has dealt.
The presence of the "deeds" of SK and its "attacks" at night in the life of Marco Corvino seem to be "loose" and do not evolve gradually. The author does not grant the right space to the relationship between protagonist and antagonist, but also unwittingly falls in the second to become quite a psychologist of the daily events of the first but not that they are somehow endangered or used for purposes of " SK. So it seems to us the whole story thriller consumed in a hasty and not very credible final. The draw
from their lives to inspire or guide the narrative of a work is a road most of the time proper and safe but in this case took precedence over narrative thriller / noir style of the author wasting some point on the graph index degrees.
look forward to the next work which will see the light day, again for Newton Compton, with the title "The 'Adept .

Article by Dario Bertini

details of the book

• Price € 14.90
• publisher Newton Compton
• Necklace New fiction Newton
• Release Date 11/02/2010
• 288 pages, paperback
• Italian Language
• EAN 9788854116764