The Crimson City Heist
Don’t trust anyone.
Don’t believe anything.
(Not even the sentence you just read.)
A federal sheriff and a strange, impetuous Indian girl who claims to be his sister arrive one day in Crimson City. Their arrival throws the life of the quiet and very isolated city into disarray and above all the life of Roy Wilson, the stationmaster’s adopted son. But in this story, no one says what they think, no one is what they believe they are and, in the end, the truth can only be decided by the heart.
- Can a western also be a great love story?
- And make you laugh?
- Who knows… in any case, here there are sheriffs, bank robberies, jailbreaks, saloon brawls…
- Plotting, double and triple crossing…
- And a machine gun that will never shoot. Sorry, Chekhov.
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.
