<div> <p><em>Paradise Salvage</em> is both a taut thriller and a lyrical coming-of-age story following twelve-year-old Nunzio Paradiso’s last summer of innocence.</p> <p>For Nunzio each new wreck towed into Paradise Salvage is a desultory gift from Fortune a random opportunity for discovery. But on a hot summer day in 1979 in the trunk of an abandoned Pontiac Bonneville he uncovers a secret that will change his life. Then in the blink of an eye all evidence is lost to the crusher and only his older brother Danny Boy believes Nunzio’s story.</p> <p>Enlisting the help of a cousin an ex-cop with a dark history of his own they embark on a bizarre and dangerous journey that proves to be as much one of personal discovery as an unraveling of the mystery behind the corpse at Paradise Salvage.</p> </div>