In the Name of Ishmael

A dark, complex thriller set in fogbound, wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set out to reveal the true identity of Ishmael, the group’s heavily protected and enigmatic leader.

Mysterious murders, a series of seemingly unconnected assassinations, the accident that killed Princess Diana, a bizarre sadomasochistic secret society, and the death of an Italian press magnate are interwoven from apparently unmatched threads in two separate time periods in Genna’s chilling tale of political conspiracy and serial murder.

Genna interlaces fact and invention so intricately that politicians and hired assassins, presidents and murderers, familiar history and scary conspiracies mingle to genuinely disturbing effect.