The Bridge at Locri
Mark Allen
Nov 2024 · Andrews UK Limited
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It's 1963 and a group of young pacifists have signed up as volunteers to build a small road bridge for a community near Locri, a town in Calabria, southern Italy. These disparate characters begin as comrades working for a common cause, yet their ideals are tested in arguments over the collective good versus the rights of the individual, while personal desires quickly create further schism. The touch-paper is lit when one of the volunteers, Italian heiress Isabella, who has affairs with two members of the group, disappears - in an area notorious for the presence of the ’Ndrangheta mafia. Instead of murder or kidnapping for ransom could there be a much simpler explanation? This is, on one level, a mystery novel, in which the mystery is approached from the different perspectives of five narrators. It is also a book which spans sixty years and charts the stories of the principal characters, who, after Locri, go back to their own countries - England, East Germany, Bosnia, Colombia and Australia - with the missing but ever-present Isabella looming over their lives.
About the author
Mark allen is a magazine publisher, a former Professional Publishers Association Editor of the Year, and author, who lives in London and Wiltshire. His company, the Mark Allen Group, of which he is the executive chairman, publishes more than a hundred magazines and organises around two hundred exhibitions, conferences and other events each year in twelve different business and consumer sectors. In 2023 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Business Admini-stration by Richmond American University London. His first novel, Life Term, a psychological thriller, was published by Colenso Books in 2021 to critical acclaim, receiving around seventy reviews on Amazon. Three of his poems were published, again by Colenso Books, in The Covid Years: a composite journal from many hands in poetry prose and pictures (2023). Married with four children and seven grandchildren, Mark is interested in both jazz and classical music, and enjoys walking, swimming and watching cricket and rugby.
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