A Very Private Gentleman, (Paperback)

from joefreiburger

This was made into a movie last year that was called The American and starred George Clooney. The interesting thing is that the book is very different from the movie. It is written from the first person account of the main character and is a pretty fast read. You are always wondering exactly what...

from jawalter

Hard to think of this without wondering how and why it was changed for the movie. Like the movie, it is nothing like what one would suspect based on the subject matter, but rather a lyric exploration of a vivid and complex narrator, who just happens to manufacture assassins' weapons for a living....

from DanielPBryant

a satirical drama, bastardizing the modern Italian people. far superior to the misnamed movie "The American" that followed. essentially an anti christian, anti everything book, a real Catcher in the Rye with rifles. a sin graph agitating between erotica and the doldrums of boredom that define a s...

from sharonzuk

Reminds me of Patricia Highsmith and The Talented Mister Ripley.

from jeremyfarnumlane

I really enjoyed this. It is set in the Italian countryside, and has this wonderfully bucolic aesthetic, but is also about an assassin/gun-maker, and the trappings of a thriller pop up from time to time. I should say, too, that the narrator's voice, while not misogynist, is somehow very male, so ...