Total Chaos - Book One in the Marseilles Trilogy

Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in the name of friendship, takes the fight against the mafia into his own hands.

-Just as Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy made Los Angeles their very own, so Mr. Izzo has made Marseilles so much more than just another geographical setting.--The Economist

-Izzo-s ability to describe Marseilles and to make his readers feel the multiracial reality of that city so directly and authentically is fascinating.--Andrea Camilleri

-One of the masterpieces of modern noir.--The Washington Post