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    Dud Cheque
    Dud Cheque
    Dud Cheque
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    Dud Cheque

    By Riccardo Maffey

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    An Anglo-Italian reporter is on the news in the Roman summer, but cannot write the story he's unearthed... and in the attempt at patching up his marriage, he ends up enacting the drama of his life A palmist had dubbed him "a powerful car on the road at night without headlights". Reminding himself of that metaphor, he takes the Via del Mare, driving against the traffic at high speed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRiccardo Maffey
    Release dateAug 2, 2010
    ISBN9781452394718
    Dud Cheque
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    Riccardo Maffey

    RICCARDO MAFFEY, a member of the British Chartered Institute of Journalists, was educated at the London Institute of World Affairs and at the University of Essex, where he gained an MA. He has been a London correspondent and foreign editor with several Italian daily newspapers. He was senior economics editor with the United States Information Service in Rome, worked as a feature writer, commentator and presenter for the BBC Italian Section, and did a lot of broadcasting and interviewing for the Italian Swiss Radio from London, Rome, Dublin, Belfast, and the US. Riccardo Maffey has published The Sand Against the Wind, Gioco a somma zero (in Italian), Diana Mosley venere del fascismo (in Italian), Dud Cheque, Harassment, Fumando una sigaretta (in Italian), Janus’ Limbo, and Il limbo di Giano (in Italian). An Italian-born British citizen, he lives with his wife, Laura, in England.

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