Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

A raucous debut novel of organized—and unorganized—crime. "A story that takes itself unseriously enough to be funny" (The Daily Beast, "This Week's Hot Reads").

Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark...