![]() ![]() With a target on his back and time running out, the truth will set Franco free, or earn him a toe tag at the morgue. Marco Carocari grew up in Switzerland, where he, over the past fifty-odd years, worked in a hardware store, traveled the globe working for the airlines and later as an internationally published photographer, and frequently jobbed as a waiter, hotel receptionist, or manager of a Blackout is his first novel. ![]() Unsettled, and confronted with forty-year-old memories, when Franco's father was murdered in front of him during Manhattan's infamous blackout, a shocking revelation finally unmasks the man who pulled the trigger that night. And the random trick who could alibi him has vanished into the anonymity of the Internet. When days later the mutilated body of a philanthropic millionaire is discovered, he's not only shocked to learn he knew him, but with Franco's fingerprints all over the crime scene, he quickly graduates from unreliable witness to prime suspect. And-if memory serves him-the sole witness to a murder across the street.Įxcept, the cops can't find a crime scene or a body, and Franco's perforated recollections and conflicting testimony leave the detectives unimpressed. Marco Carocari recently spent some time with The Big Thrill discussing his debut thriller, BLACKOUT: What do you hope readers will take away from this book A great time with characters they can fall in love with (and a new author they want to read again in the future). A hook-up with a hot guy on his Manhattan rooftop, and a joint he's unaware is laced, leaves him dazed. Strait-laced forty-something Franco definitely picked the wrong night to get freaky. ![]()
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