“I steal, you steal, he steals. We read and have a blast!” Marco Malvaldi
More than ten years have passed since Duilio Sciobbica, nicknamed Mortaretto, a sporadic technician at Cinecittà with a talent for opening any lock, pulled off a legendary "counter-heist": he preempted a major robbery on the Rome-Fiumicino already planned by other dangerous gangs. To save himself from retaliation, Mortaretto chooses to build himself a solid alibi, getting himself incarcerated for entirely different reasons and spending five years safely in prison. Now finally free, Duilio, along with his wife Silvana, runs the trattoria Ventre de Vacca, while he tries to mend his difficult relationship with his daughter Jessica, convinced that thefts and heists are now part of his past. It will be the risk of seeing his new respectable life as a host, husband, and father (and the fear of not being able to enjoy the generous loot from that old job) that will drive him to take up the tools of his trade once again and organize a new counter-heist. This time, however, he will do it in the guise of the avenger.
Alessandro Canale is a playwright, having published Razza Canara (Fernandel, 2000), and Beoti gli ultimi (Fernandel, 2002). Porcodighel is his first novel. 2 Heists, 1 Day was published in the early 2000s under the title The Counter-Heist and criminally slipped under the radar; this unmissable novel returned to bookstores in 2026 for Accento edizioni, ready to captivate the readers it deserves, thanks to its dizzying pace, a distinctly Roman brilliance, and the carefree ruthlessness of the best Italian comedy. Preface by Marco Malvaldi.
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