Lorenzo Carcaterra, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-41096-2
Here is proof that when there's a film deal in the works, publishers will snap up the book and promote it as a literary event. Carcaterra, who landed on the big screen with his New York Times
bestseller Sleepers, builds his flimsy tale around a...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-41097-9
Carcaterra has written extensively for television and it shows in this melodramatic tale of war between the New York branch of the Italian Mafia and a lone, mob-busting supercop from Italy. Giancarlo Lo Manto has arrived from Naples on the trail of...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra, Author Random House Audio Publishing Inc $23 (404p) ISBN 978-0-345-39606-8
Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, summer 1967: ``a place of innocence ruled by corruption.'' John ``The Count,'' Tommy ``Butter,'' Michael ``Spots'' and the author, ``Shakes, '' went to parochial school, stole anything that wasn't nailed down and ran...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra, Ballantine, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-48390-4
This superior religious artifact quest thriller from Carcaterra (Sleepers) careens through the streets of Florence with quick stops at various museums and galleries for interesting sidebars on the life and work of Michelangelo ("the Divine One")....
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Lorenzo Carcaterra, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-40411-4
Carcaterra's controversial memoir of growing up in NYC's Hell's Kitchen and as an inmate at a sadistic detention center was a PW bestseller for eight weeks. (Apr.)
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Lorenzo Carcaterra, Author Villard Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40282-4
In this memoir, former New York Daily News reporter Carcaterra recalls growing up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the 1950s and 1960s, a crime-ridden area populated mostly by Irish and Italian immigrant families. He lived with his father Mario--ex-b
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Lorenzo Carcaterra, Author Ballantine Books $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-40100-7
""I was now well-prepared to be a career criminal... I just didn't have the stomach for any of it."" Carcaterra's latest crime novel is the tantalizing coming-of-age story of orphan Gabe, groomed by longtime New York City mob boss Angelo Vestieri to
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Lorenzo Carcaterra, Author Ballantine Books $25.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-345-41098-6
In the 1997 action thriller Apaches, Caraterra introduced ex-NYPD detective, Giovanni ""Boomer"" Frontieri, who brought together a band of cops, each forcibly retired due to a disability acquired on the job, to take down an insidious drug dealer....
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Lorenzo Carcaterra. Ballantine, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-48394-2
Carcaterra (Sleepers) explores the highest levels of organized crime and plumbs the depths of revenge in this high-octane thriller. At 37, Vincent Marelli (aka the Wolf) heads a United Nations of crime, a modern corporate structure uniting all the...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-48392-8
Set in New York, this uneven series launch from bestseller Carcaterra (Sleepers) introduces former NYPD detective Tank Rizzo, one of the titular Tin Badges (“Retired cops who get handed cases when the PD is on overload”). When Tank’s estranged...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra. Ballantine, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-17759-0
Bestseller Carcaterra’s rambunctious sequel to 2019’s Tin Badges finds former NYPD cop Tank Rizzo enjoying the good life. He lives in a Greenwich Village brownstone he inherited mortgage-free from his parents, and eats most of his meals down the...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra. Ballantine, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-15671-1
Carcaterra (Sleepers) pays a moving tribute to his grandmother, mother, and wife in this heartfelt account of how they shaped him. A fearless advocate for her family during the Nazi occupation of Naples in WWII, Carcaterra’s “Nonna” Maria lost a son
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Lorenzo Carcaterra. Bantam, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-399-17762-0
Nonna Maria, the distinctive protagonist of this gentle standalone from bestseller Carcaterra (the Tank Rizzo series), seldom travels from her home on the Italian island of Ischia, though she has a vast network of friends who come to her “with...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra. Bantam, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-49918-4
Carcaterra’s charming sequel to 2022’s Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride finds 70-year-old widow Nonna Maria, the Italian island of Ischia’s favorite amateur sleuth, dealing with two mysteries. The first is the murder of an unidentified...
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