<p>Praise for <i>Holy Smoke</i>, the first in the Antoine series:</p><p>“A terrific black comedy …both a blasphemously funny satire of provincial Italian chicanery and a wry acknowledgment of the ambivalence that ambitious immigrants feel about their roots.”—<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>“Unexpected deadly demands made in the name of friendship inspire the plot of this quirky mystery novel. Irreverently inveighs against romantic love, cancer and the Paris suburbs.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></p><p>“An iconoclastic chronicle of small-time crooks and desperate capers, with added Gallic and Italian flair. Wonderful fun.”—<i>Guardian</i></p><p>Antoine, a fanatic billiards player, is asked to watch over a Paris art gallery. When he scuffles with a thief a statue falls and severs his right hand. His maverick investigation leads to the discovery of a series of gruesome killings. Soon Antoine finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a gallery owner. A game of billiards decides the outcome of this satirical tale which brilliantly captures the world of modern art and the parasites that infest it.</p><p>After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, and a train guard on the Paris-Rome line, <b>Tonino Benacquista</b> is now a highly successful author of fiction and film scripts.</p>
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