The gaze of the great American observer, who has repeatedly dismantled the mechanisms of global power, becomes the tool for drawing the threads of a gripping thriller. Alexander Grayson lives in the Tuscan hills, a life apart, far from the Delta Force, the CIA, and the White House he knew well in his previous life. But one word, Orpheus, is enough to reconnect him to that world of forty years earlier, amid the mysteries of secret services, major banks, and the military apparatus. The Hand of Orpheus (Baldini + Castoldi) by Alan Friedman is a novel about power written by someone who has observed and described that power firsthand. Serena Piazza will be in conversation with him .
The gaze of the great American observer, who has repeatedly dismantled the mechanisms of global power, becomes the tool for drawing the threads of a gripping thriller. Alexander Grayson lives in the Tuscan hills, a life apart, far from the Delta Force, the CIA, and the White House he knew well in his previous life. But one word, Orpheus, is enough to reconnect him to that world of forty years earlier, amid the mysteries of secret services, major banks, and the military apparatus. The Hand of Orpheus (Baldini + Castoldi) by Alan Friedman is a novel about power written by someone who has observed and described that power firsthand. Serena Piazza will be in conversation with him .