Party Animal

A party in the hills of northern Italy descends into an outlandish rite of passage in this electrifying international sensation

SPELLBINDING VINCENZO LATRONICO, author of Perfection

Its the beginning of summer. Isa M, a literature student, is throwing a party at her familys villa on the outskirts of Turin. The music is loud, the drinks are flowing, and the garden is packed with friends and maybe a few gatecrashers. The only guest who hasnt arrived yet is Ezio, the boy shes falling in love with.

Then an anonymous gift turns up on the kitchen table: a bottle of wine with a card that reads, Unless someone touches the cassowary before one a.m., Ezio dies.

At first it seems like a prank. Except Ezio still isnt answering his phone. And no ones sure who brought the bottle. Or what, exactly, a cassowary is As the hours tick by and the undergrads wade further into a head