Similar to the works of David Dodge and Leslie Charteris, Davide Mana's The Corsair series moves along the same lines of an old television show called "The Persuaders". Chock full of thrills and adventure, a drop of noir, and a little humor with a  tough-as-nails hero that has all the savvy of a Travis McGee and suave demeanor of TV's Lovejoy. He chats with the reader, outwits the bad guys, pulls in the beautiful ladies, and maybe make a buck or two while he's at it. All set in the 1950s Mediterranean. Davide Mana was born in Turin, Italy, 1967, and lives in Castelnuovo Belbo, a 900-souls community in the hills of the Monferrato area of Northern Italy. He studied science in Turin, Bonn, Urbino, receiving a BSc in Geology, and he's currently working on his PhD. Davide has been a call center operator, language teacher, scarecrow, university researcher, freelance researcher, post-doc course teacher, translator, author, content crafter, art show coordinator, editor, lecturer, game designer, fantasy writer, teacher of Taoist Philosophy, book reviewer, web designer, and bicycle repairman. An author of both fiction and non-fiction, he blogs both in Italian and English. In his spare time he listens to music, plays at tabletop roleplaying games, cooks and watches old movies. He's currently waiting for the dealer to deal him the next hand of cards.