A Chance Encounter

(Still to be promoted)STOP BROWSING! You just found a must-read book pulling you inside its plot like being you its protagonist. And like it never happened you before!The stunning and surprising story-telling style of this fast-paced and hooking thriller is tuned to meet last-generation readers’ tastes and habits.Halfway between reading a book and watching your favorite TV series kind of experience? Yes, it is!Packed with unpredictable actions, it also rips through the whole spectrum of sentiments.Already published in different languages, this contemporary work is the first novel of a long-time former Int'l publisher and editor of magazines who currently lives between Italy and the USA.---“A Chance Encounter” gut-wrenching story digs deep into how life can surprise you and show no mercy. “For they sow the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind,” says an ancient adage cruelly sentencing the fate of two disillusioned friends. Bonded for life by the live-or-die experience they shared, when with ONU Peace Corps in Beirut, Lebanon capital, they then grew disappointed with their own lives and lack of achievements. This until they saw a chance to redraw from scratch their destinies. They took it and committed an audacious armed robbery, self-absolving themselves with having robbed criminals of the worst kind. They were monsters even, being the drug smugglers one of them was fighting as a police high-rank official with frustrating results. After the robbery, the two friends fled the country on a fancy motor-yacht and reached the Seychelles Islands, not before having almost lost everything twice, first with Somali pirates and then in an unexpected fight with the Port Authority during their last refueling stopover in Africa. At the Seychelles they started a new existence that was perfect, until it crumbled down like a house of cards. Un unlucky turn of events caught them into a live-or-die confrontation, this time involving their newly founded families! They survived it, not unscathed. They then tried to rebuild a serene life, but it was an illusion. Forcibly engulfed in a final and shocking twist of violence, they took the most extreme decision ever! But if they survived again, were they able to overcome the sudden comprehension of their mistakes and make peace with the consequences? The first and the last page of the story will catch you off-guard! Read more