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Tonino Benacquista

Biography

Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista is an award-winning French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel MALAVITA , which was later adapted into a film in 2012 titled The Family.

Tonino Benacquista

Books by Tonino Benacquista

by Tonino Benacquista - Fiction

The Blakes are newcomers to a small town in Normandy. Fred is really Giovanni Manzoni, an ex-goodfella turned stool pigeon who’s been relocated from New Jersey to France by the FBI’s witness protection program. He’s got a two-million-dollar bounty on his head, and when imprisoned mobster Don Mimino gets wind of their location, it’s Mafia mayhem à la Josh Bazell’s Beat the Reaper, or like The Godfather as if written by Carl Hiaasen.