Audioraamat: Black Run

At last a detective whos not haunted by personal demons or soaked in booze, a man who may not be entirely honest indeed, you could call him corrupt as well as adulterous but who glories in his job of solving crimes. Hes a coarse, violent and engaging policeman who would not be out of place in a James Ellroy masterpiece. The tale is deftly told with sharp, cynical dialogue. Lets hear more of Schiavone. Daily Mail



Antonio Manzini has created an Italian detective to rival Andrea Camilleris Inspector Montalbano with deputy chief Rocco Schiavone GQ



An arresting murder mystery Monocle



The ranks of impressive Euro Noir novelists is swelled by the gritty Antonio Manzini, whose Black Run may sport epigraphs from Schilller and Mayakovsky, but underlines its genre-credentials with a superstructure of diamond-hard crime writing this is lacerating stuff Barry Forshaw, Financial Times



Forget Montalbano. Commisario Rocco Schivone is grievous, coarse, violent Wonderful, heartbreaking LUomo Vogue A writing style that captivates La Gioia



Corrupt and ingenious, Rocco Schiavone echoes Dudley Smith from L.A. Confidential Cinematic and literary La Stampa



Rocco Schivone is as bad a cop as Lt. Kojak. Dishonest, potentially violent, intolerant of the rules, but he also has a talent for the job he does an unusual character Noir with a touch of dark irony Repubblica



Surly, moody, individualistic, unconventional, corrupt, abusive, with a dark past, Rocco Schiavone seems to come from the dark metropolis of a novel by James Ellroy LIndice



Manzini devotes more space to his characters than to events; and the detective story is a pretext for talking brilliantly about the Italian society. Andrea Camilleri