Ciao, Amore, Ciao

Based on a Heartbreaking True Story

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Pub Date 27 Mar 2025 | Archive Date 28 May 2025

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Description

An enthralling and taut dual-timeline WWII mystery based on the true story of the massacre in a small town in Italy in July of 1945.

"A gripping saga that roots excruciating betrayals in a nation's tragic history." -Kirkus Reviews

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.

In present-day Veneto, an ordinary man is about to stumble onto a horrifying secret.

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.

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.

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.

Ciao, Amore, Ciao 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.

"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." -Sublime Book Review

An enthralling and taut dual-timeline WWII mystery based on the true story of the massacre in a small town in Italy in July of 1945.

"A gripping saga that roots excruciating betrayals in a nation's...


Advance Praise

"A gripping saga that roots excruciating betrayals in a nation's tragic history." -KIRKUS REVIEWS

"A gripping saga that roots excruciating betrayals in a nation's tragic history." -KIRKUS REVIEWS


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ISBN 9781685135782
PRICE US$6.99 (USD)
PAGES 426

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