ABOUT THE BOOK

It's a city of bottom feeders. With no bottom. Philadelphia Assistant D.A., Lisa Savitch, has a problem. Her boss wants her to nail the Sunday Macaroni Club - five remnants of the old South Philly political machine led by Augie Sangiamino, a former U.S. Senator, convicted for fraud, now a political consultant. But are these has-beens so important, when the local oil company is belching clouds of yellow smoke and neighbourhood children are dying of leukaemia? As for Augie, it's like he says at grace on Sunday: "We thank you, Lord, for this wonderful macaroni dinner. But we could use a little help, to tell you the truth, in this campaign".

With his two candidates way behind in the polls, Augie needs a miracle. And miracles, they cost money and that's where The Sunday Macaroni Club dives into a glorious carnival of greed and ambition!

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Lopez has done what Balzac, Dickens...and Dostoevsky did so masterfully: he has taken a torch to the back of the cave and returned to tell us what he has seen.' - Pete Hamill

'Steve Lopez writes from the heart and the gut.' - Tim O'Brien

'An unfancy prose is streaked by strong cinematic images...Lopez aims to prick consciences, in the tradition of the documentary novelist, and he does so with considerable style' - London Daily Telegraph