FRANCESCA

MILAN SUMMER 1987: THE HEROIN CAPITAL OF THE WORLDSandro Lago is a teenage junky exhausted and adrift in Milan's seedy underworld of the mid-1980s on the run from a killer cops a Milanese mobster and his own syringe-inspired demons.Robi Johnson in Chicago wants nothing more than a fleeting escape from a tortured past and figures Italy is as good a place as anywhere else. As Sandro and Robi's lives collide in the vibrant and turbulent summer of 1987 they will find solace in each other's pain a brief respite from their shattered lives and a desperate escape from the violence that threatens to tear them apart.Written in 1987 and set in the dying days of ItaloDisco Francesca is a gritty and unsparing novel that captures the fragility of youth and the harsh realities of life on the bitter-cut edge.