'as God Commands' By Niccolò Ammaniti

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 1:00am — latimes.com - Books

Topics: italian
Keywords: crime involving robbery hard-boiled plan desperation gritty suspenseful hatched underclass

The hard-boiled Italian crime novel involving a robbery plan hatched out of underclass desperation is as gritty as it is suspenseful.

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