[Felidae 05] • SALVE ROMA! A Felidae Novel - U.S. Edition

To Rome! As Francis' master receives the call to supervise the excavations of newly discovered catacombs in the Roman Forum, he wants to accommodate his Francis in a cat's pension. However, the sly cat does not take part in the play and escorts him as a stowaway on the trip to reach, finally, the city of his dreams. The pointy-eared tourist lands safely on target at the Largo Argentina, where countless homeless stray cats live and the dangerous cat's mafia controls everything. Soon it turns out that the scattering community protects a cruel secret. For some time now a series of murders rages among the homeless cats. Francis' detective instinct is kindled. With the help of a newfound friend who knows the lanes and catacombs confusion of the metropolis very well, he takes up the track of the uncanny butcher.

After seven Felidae novels Akif Pirinçci is for the interface group of thriller reading cat lovers what Stephen King is for the followers of the cultivated horror: Cult. Seamlessly his fifth Felidae adventure Salve Roma! falls in line with the former ones and this time leads the reader to the streets and basements of Rome – it goes without saying through the eyes of our four-legged detective. Salvo Roma! if is a classical Felidae novel with a pinch of cat's philosophy which looks at the life and at the activities of the people with humorously sceptical eye and will satisfy beside cat's friends every crime film lover and even people addicted to Rome. With Francis, Akif Pirinçci has created a hero of which one is not getting enough - who then does not long for being a tomcat himself, or even better, a cat?

PRESS

“For the fifth time Akif Pirincci succeeded to create a miraculous book about Francis, the detective on four paws." (Cosmopolitan)

"Pirincci has created a feline parallel universe. Those who engage in it will be entertained with wit and elegance." (Die Welt)

“These cat mysteries are extremely exciting, funny, touching and linguistically on a very high level." (Rheinpfalz)

Pirinçci was born on the 29th April 1959 in Istanbul. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel "Tränen sind immer das Ende" (literally meaning "Tears always are the End") in 1980, at the age of 21. His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel "Felidae", a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller. Due to the enormous success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of "cat crime fiction" and published several sequels to Felidae, out of which only one, namely "Felidae on the Road", has been translated into English. An animated movie based on Felidae, the script of which had been co-written by Pirinçci, has been produced in Germany in 1994, and was also dubbed in English. Pirinçci has published several other novels which were not set in the fictional reality of the Felidae series. He had a big success with his fantastic thriller "The Back Door" which was made into a german moving picture with Mads Mikkelsen ("Casino Royal") and will be remade by Hollywood.

Pirinçci currently lives in Bonn, the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.