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I liked this book. Dr. Duca Lamberti is an MD who has just recently gotten out of prison for euthanasia. He is given a job to sober up a wealthy man's son, Davide. He starts the job and through a trip to a cemetery learns that Davide killed a woman the year prior and that is why he drinks. But it is not so simple. Davide carries the blame of a young woman's suicide when in reality she fell prey to a human smuggling/prostitution ring when she fought back against what was happening.
Now Duca, Davide, police officers and one of the murder girl's friends set a trap to catch the killers.
I enjoyed the prose, I enjoyed the tense scenes, I enjoyed the violence and I enjoyed the metaphors when Dr. Lamberti describes how Davide will be sober when he is done with him. "Drinking mineral water", "drinking cream and honey". Nice metaphors. Duca's father was a police officer who took the mafia on when he was on the force. That is until a would be assassin tried to kill him and ended up ruining one of his arms in the process. Duca's father also gave him the advice that you have to answer violence with violence. Sometimes it is the only language that a person speaks. You don't speak French to a German. You don't play nice with a mafioso or a pimp. You use their language.
I think that revenge was also well used in this book. Duca's father was forced into a desk job after the attempt on his life and died while Duca was in prison. Now Duca has the chance (and uses it) to enact some revenge on the type of men that hurt his father.
Good book. My library has the second installment which I'll read. Who knows if I'll read all four.
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