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A Tango in Tuscany
An idyllic vacation villa is ruffled by elements from a more ruthless world. Claudio, an Argentine physician is the life of the group, even giving tango lessons after the evening meal. Silvia, an American almost old enough to be his mother, develops a fast rapport with the charismatic Claudio, so much so that her husband Tony, the proprietor, suspects an unlikely attraction is in the making.
But Claudio is on a mission. He has tracked the retired army officer responsible for the disappearance of his mother during Argentina's "dirty war" twenty years before. Col. Leone is surrounded by bodyguards in a remote Tuscan town. Claudio must get to him and make him confront his past.
But there is more at stake. Those who had orchestrated the disappearances do not want Leone ever to reveal what he knows. They send their own agents to hunt the hunter Claudio. Silvia and Tony are drawn into the cauldron. Revenge and redemption spin through a final tango as the showdown unfolds.
Jim Ciullo's
Biography:
Jim Ciullo lives in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. In his previous career, he helped develop a system of community services for the developmentally disabled. He still does consulting and volunteering in the human services field, but now spends much time writing and working summers at Tanglewood. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer, and has traveled extensively, especially to Italy and Latin America.
The author, a resident of western Massachusetts, has strong connections to Vermont, where his relatives live and where he wrote much of the book.
In his first novel, Ciullo writes about the commings-and-goings at a Tuscan villa, where a visiting Argentine physician is intent on tracking down the man he believes is responsible for his mother's disappearance.
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Free Press, Sunday Magazine
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