In the winter of 1944, the newly liberated city of Naples has become an ever more dangerous place. Among those charged with maintaining the military security of the city is a young Canadian, Lieutenant Thomas Greaves. Greaves seems naïve at first, but it soon becomes clear that he has demons to exorcise and that he sees his time in Naples as the opportunity to make amends for a tragic mistake made on the battlefield. But his plans go awry, and Greaves lands in the murky world of gangsters and black marketeers.

"The Fallen unleashes a complex tale of naivety, bravery and the attempt to wrest order from chaos...Finucan has written a rare thing in Canadian literature: a novel in which the tension arises from a deep moral core. As the novel builds towards its climax, it takes on a near-Shakespearean quality...Finucan's style is nearly flawless, and his research into 1944 Naples impeccable. There are no rough edges here: every meticulously gathered detail is integrated seamlessly into his excellent prose. The Fallen will stay with the reader and reward repeated readings."
—Quill & Quire

"The Fallen is a wonderful tale, a story that could only be set in a city that is an open secret, and that city is Naples. Best of all, it is a novel that knows the difference between putting too much faith in people, or too little."
—Peter Oliva, author of The City of Yes and Drowning in Darkness

In The Fallen, Stephen Finucan has recreated 1944 Naples with an historian's fidelity; but Finucan is foremost a gifted storyteller, and it is his depiction of a moral man's plight in an immoral world that makes this novel such a compelling and rewarding experience.
—Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena