Poisonville

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Poisonville is a noir thriller par excellence-there's murder,
moral ambiguity, and a protagonist less than heroic. In this #1
bestselling noir novel, however, the killer is not an individual but an
entire system. The heavily industrialized northeast, Italy's
richest region, is undergoing dramatic change. It once drove the
nation's economic boom, a regional superpower, affluent and arrogant, a
land that abided only its own rules. But then the factory owners began
moving their operations east, across the border to former soviet
countries where labor was cheap and regulatory bodies absent. With the
factories, the jobs, and the riches gone, new elements began insinuating
themselves into the old system, and the Brahmin families of the
northeast began employing increasingly violent methods to protect their
status and their wealth. Once renowned for its economic might, the
region is now infested by organized crime, trafficking of every
commodity, including human, ranks of media personalities and politicians
on the payrolls of rich families and mobsters, and an ongoing
environmental catastrophe. Welcome to Poisonville! Here, the
young lawyer Francesco, heir to the region's second richest family, will
have to decide between business as usual or a violent rupture with the
ways of the past. The wrong choice could cost him his life.