From 17 January he is in the bookstore for Edizioni Countries, the novel “I do things I see people”. This was signed by Zeno Maria Peli, pseudonym chosen by the author, a lobbyist who in his debut novel chose anonymity to tell from the inside, and without saving details, an active, vital, but still little known world, indeed , surrounded by a certain mysterious aura. The protagonists of this novel, Leo and Enzo, the “most gaudic lobbyists of the capital”, open the doors of the ‘buildings of power’, revealing the modus operandi of the representatives of interest and telling, among the lines, also some secrets.
Lightness, telling the lives of two rigorous professionals, sometimes unscrupulous at the limit of cynicism at work, but also American jazz enthusiasts and torpedian whiskey, beautiful women, disillusioned by choice, but dreamers by nature. During the day they still move in the buildings of the power of Rome, where they meet equally shrewd characters. The night, when the offices’ lights go out, lead normal lives, loosening tension and stress with a glass of whiskey, perhaps listening to good jazz in a club for a few close. Against the background of a night Rome to be lived, through the stories of Leo and Enzo, their “tricks of the trade” but also their inner dilemmas (yes, the lobbyists also have an ethics), the author transmits the dimension Real of this world, disappearing false myths that obscure and distort the image. A cloudy vision of a profession considered border-line that belongs to Italy but not to other advanced democracies.
“It is truly singular how, after centuries of history, the work of the lobbyist and his professionalism are unknown to most. Not only that, there are people who boast it, but they are only a becera ‘businessman’ or ‘underbraccista’ … the First it is a category of men and/or women of finance or business, which are caught with great maneuvers and manipulators, inspirers of political positions; But there are also those who, the profession of the lobbyist, practice without knowing it every day “.