Fire on Mount Maggiore
Subtitle: a novel
By: John Parras.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Forest fires -- Fiction.; Fire fighters -- Fiction.; Americans -- Italy -- Fiction.; Arson investigation -- Fiction.; Italy, Southern -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Fire on Mount Maggiore tells the story of Matteo Arteli, a firefighter harrowed by survivor's guilt after a fierce blaze kills five men in his brigade, leaving him an unlikely phoenix emerging from the ashes. Amid rumors of flawed firefighting operations, mismanagement of state lands, underworld involvement, and serial arson, Matteo probes suspicions swirling around the circumstances of the deaths and finds himself at the center of an intricate conspiracy."--BOOK JACKET.