"Massimo Carlotto has a history as riveting as any novel." —Chicago Tribune

After serving years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, Massimo Carlotto received a presidential pardon in 1993. The first book he wrote as a free man was The Fugitive telling of his years on the run from a politically motivated murder charge. This gritty tale takes readers from the French underworld to a Mexico besieged by guerilla warfare. Virtually a handbook on how to live life on the lamb, The Fugitive is also a vibrant novel full of vivid underworld characters and breathtaking moments that Carlotto recounts in the cool, lucid prose that has become his trademark.

Massimo Carlotto
Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua, Italy. In addition to the many titles in his extremely popular “Alligator” series, he is also the author of The Fugitive, Death’s Dark Abyss, Poisonville, Bandit Love, and At the End of a Dull Day. One of Italy’s most popular authors and a major exponent of the Mediterranean Noir novel, Carlotto has been compared with many of the most important American hardboiled crime writers.

• Dec 17 2007
  Time Literary Supplement: "Carlotto gives a wry, offhand account of his own experiences of officially condoned brutality, of fear and uncertainty, but the tone throughout is surprisingly free of rancour or recrimination."
  
• Apr 24 2007
  L Magazine: "[The Fugitive] intrigues for its author's chrysallic but unmistakable persona."
  
• Apr 23 2007
  The Washington Post: "...a memoir of the two years he spent on the lam in Europa and Mexico, the identities he took on, how he was betrayed by a Mexican lawyer—in short, 'the daily life, the behavior, and the routine of someone who is one the run.'"
  
• Mar 20 2007
  The New York Times: "Massimo Carlotto['s]...raw stories about Italian criminals in unhealthy political climates are about as gritty as they come and [his] fictional account of his own experiences running from a murder charge ... has just been released."
  
• Mar 7 2007
  Kirkus Reviews: "A powerfully dreamlike evocation of life on the lam."
  
• Feb 12 2007
  Booklist: "It’s a gripping tale, whether read as a novel or as a memoir."