Kirkus Reviews Featured Review Giordano (Birds of Passage, 2015) introduces Anthony Provati, a reckless Lothario who becomes a hunted man in a global showdown of vicious organized criminals and terrorists. Anthony Provati, lounge pianist and gallery owner, has an ill-advised flirtation with the mistress of a dangerous Russian mob boss, Gorgon Malakhov. Gorgon is a…
With the title, Appointment with ISIL, the reader knows Anthony Provati will meet up with the terrorist organization that now controls sections of the Middle East and Africa. Yet, how he gets there, both literally and figuratively, in the way of plots, subplots and characters, is where Joe Giordano’s latest novel shines page after thrilling…
Joe Giordano Book Launch with Joe Giordano & Walt Gragg Calendar When: June 30, 2017 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Malvern Books 613 West 29th Street Austin, TX 78705 Cost: Free Celebration Reading Join us in celebrating the launch of Joe Giordano’s second novel, Appointment with ISIL, An Anthony Provati Thriller. Joe will be joined…
Anthony Provati has the smoldering good looks and wandering eye of a man luckier than he is—now all he needs to do is uncover ISIL’s plot, recover priceless paintings, and convince the Red Mafia not to murder him. He’s really done it this time. Playing the baby grand in the corner of a seedy…
The story of Italians in Arkansas started in Greenwich Village, New York. Following il Risorgimento, the unification of Italy, southern Italians fled poverty in the Mezzogiorno emigrating to seek better opportunities in New York. The surge of peasant Italians often fell prey to exploitation. In 1890, Father Pietro Bandini left Italy and founded the St.…
Appointment with ISIL, an Anthony Provati Thriller A simple flirtation will become a hair-raising race against death, secret agendas, black market deals and a possible showdown with a militant terrorist group in a quest to prevent the death and destruction of millions. Maybe next time Anthony Provati will keep his sexual appetite under control or…
– PRESS RELEASE – Appointment with ISIL by Joe Giordano For release June 15, 2017 Political Thriller; Romance Harvard Square Editions 292 pages $22.95 Trade Paperback; $9.99, eBook ISBN 978-1-941861-34-9 Distribution: Ingram, Brodart, Baker, & Taylor, Gardners, Bertrams, Blackwell, B & N, Amazon, and bookstores everywhere Appointment with ISIL, an Anthony…
Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal opened transportation for immigrants to the U.S. Midwest. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wisconsin expanded from a frontier territory into a fully functioning state (1848) mainly due to migration and immigration, the majority arriving from northern Europe and Germany, with a smaller number coming from southern…
In the early 1700s, Neapolitan born, Henri de (Enrico) Tonti, a colleague of Robert de la Salle, explored Louisiana and settled in the New France colony. A leader in the community, North Tonti Street in New Orleans honors him and is located just south of Lake Pontchartrain. After the Civil War, planters in southern states…
Like Christopher Columbus, Italians were often in the employ of the Spanish court during the era of discovery. On Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s 1540-42 epic expedition from Mexico to Kansas, later termed the search for the “Seven Cities of Gold,” his soldiers included men named Loro, Napolitano, and Romano. Neapolitan, Henri di Tonti, was an…
