Ciao Amore Ciao

<p><strong>An enthralling dual-timeline WWII family mystery based on the heartbreaking true story of the massacre in a small town in Italy in July of 1945 from award-winning bestselling novelist Sandro Martini.</strong></p><p><strong>A gripping saga that roots excruciating betrayals in a nation's tragic history. -<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p>In the winter of 1942 an Italian army of young men vanishes in the icefields of the Eastern Front. In the summer of 1945 a massacre in Schio northeastern Italy where families grieve the dead makes international headlines.</p><p>In present-day Veneto an ordinary man is about to stumble onto a horrifying secret.</p><p>Alex Lago is a jaded journalist whose career is fading as fast as his marriage. When he discovers an aged World War II photo in his dying father's home and innocently posts it to a Facebook group he gets an urgent message: Take it down. NOW.</p><p>Alex finds himself digging into a past that needs to stay hidden. What he's about to uncover is a secret that can topple a political dynasty buried under seventy years of rubble. Suddenly entangled in a deadly legacy he encounters the one person who can offer him redemption for an unimaginable price.</p><p>Told from three alternating points of view Martini's World War II tale of intrigue war and heartbreak pulls the Iron Curtain back to reveal a country nursing its wounds after horrific defeat an army of boys forever frozen at the gates of Stalingrad British spies scheming to reshape Italy's future and the stinging unsolved murder of a partisan hero.</p><p><strong><em>Ciao Amore Ciao</em> is a gripping story of the most heroic untold battle of the Second World War and a brilliantly woven novel that brings the deceits of the past and the reckoning of the present together.</strong></p><p><strong>Balances action suspense and emotional depth to deliver a truly immersive thought-provoking read with an unflinching look at the sins of the past and the lengths to which the powerful will go to keep them buried. -<em>Sublime Book Review</em></strong></p>