Baccano is a light novel written by Ryogo Narita with illustrations by Katsumi Enami. "Baccano", which author Narita translates as "stupid commotion", is Italian for "ruckus". Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control - Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together, creating a world straight out of the movies. Source: http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Baccano

When the God Himself is asking for your help, would you be able to refuse Him? And what if His request can destroy your whole life? A car, racing at high speed, a suicide bomber, a bandit's knife on the night street... Is it possible to anticipate and prevent those terrible events? It is possible, of course, to become more careful and more prudent in everyday life, but not in the case of terrorism. The world does not know the salvation from this plague of the 21st century. How to stop a man, for whom the death is the highest good? A provincial doctor, who lives on the peninsula of Crimea, a part of the former Soviet Union, saves people from premature death, reprogramming their fate, thus saving those, who appear close to them in the fateful hour. "He is not the God, he's just a charlatan," a journalist Sasha Krylova thinks, whom the chief editor of a respectable capital newspaper, where she works, has sent to the Crimea to write about the doctor's unusual method. Sasha is sure that he just earns on people's misfortunes. However, having visiting the doctor's sessions, the journalist was shocked - everything looked too real and too scary. But why do they ignore his discovery? Trying to understand whether he was he the genius or a charlatan, Sasha gets back... more and more corpses. Who is responsible for their deaths - the doctor or the matter consists in her? The situation is becoming too dangerous, the journalist decides to interrupt the trip, but if someone plays cat and mouse with her. Her escape from the Crimea ends up with her kidnapping. Now, in order to survive, she has to take part in the experiment. This is a very dangerous and unpredictable way, but how amazing to keep the fate of another person in your own hands. Gradually, however, the experiment becomes more and more unpredictable, the life of the man that has once betrayed her, turns out in her hands...