In the Hand of Dante » (First Back Bay Paperback Edition)

A journalist who has also written three novels, Nick Tosches is an acclaimed biographer whose unconventional books -- Dino and The Devil and Sonny Liston among them -- illuminate some of America's more controversial, overshadowed talents.

When the original handwritten manuscript of Dante's The Divine Comedy is found in Italy, it somehow makes its way to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches steals the manuscript. In the Hand of Dante is a work of audacity and beauty, featuring Manhattan's meanest murdering scum and... Dante Alleghieri.

San Diego Union Tribune

...razor sharp insights...this novel's true wisdom lies in its poetry...