George Henry – författare

WHO IS TRYING TO KILL MILO MARCHETTI?Is it Marotti, the deputy chief of Criminalpol, a national security agency, to silence him over his knowledge of the politically explosive circumstances of the death of Fabio Borini, a fascist government minister? If not him, who? Donatella Mazzola of the rival mob family, Pavelic, a fascist Croat, or Riina, the imprisoned boss of the Mafia? Milo has made deals, exchanging his criminal businesses for legal ones, with all three of them. Is one after a better deal by eliminating Milo? Could it be Stojanovic, the Muslim-hating Serb, whom the Nasim family has clashed with for decades? Could it be Nouri, his second-in-command, or the rebellious Nasim capos who are unhappy that Milo replaced the ailing Mohammed Nasim as the family leader? Milo teams up with his DIGOS security service ally, Isabella Camilleri. and Trieste's capo of detectives, Conte, to identify the shooter before Milo is murdered.350 pages; 145,000 words

A NOIR THRILLER. A DOOMED ROMANCE.Blood Rain in Trieste combines genres into a page-turning, action-packed drama, so fasten your seat belt and be carried along by the volatile relationship of two emotionally damaged souls that isn't a stairway to heaven but a scary rollercoaster.Let the story sweep you along from the assassination of a Taliban leader in Afghanistan through the simmering ethnic violence of the Balkans to the seedy underbelly of Trieste, the least-Italian city, tucked away where the Pope cannot find it on a map.A mysterious, seductive woman who disturbingly resembles Milo's dead wife, sashays her curves into his music club, flashes her sparkling, emerald eyes, licks her pillows of red lips, and offers him a lot of cash to make her blackmailer "e;disappear."e; He's intrigued but who is she? Why him? Does she know about his violent past?Milo, a former Canadian Intelligence agent, is hooked, and she reels him into Trieste's criminal underworld where he soon discovers she's big trouble: the catalyst for his confrontations with her insanely protective brother, other mob families, religious zealots, and the police.When he discovers her duplicity and his life is under threat from all sides, is the woman he's fallen in love with worth the trouble?