The Cold Summer
The Cold Summer
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The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. That summer ushered in a spate of killings by the Mafia of judges and police officers, most of them assassinated near Palermo. The Sicilian killings and ensuing gang wars also infected Bari triggering an investigation by local Carabinieri officer Pietro Fenoglio.
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The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio
The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that’s not the reason why it is still remembered. On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers were killed in the center of Palermo. These anti-mafia judges became heroes but the violence spread to the region of Bari in Puglia, where we meet a new, memorable character, Maresciallo Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Italian Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently abandoned by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the new gang wars raging around Bari. The police are stymied until a gang member, accused of killing a child, decides to collaborate, revealing the inner workings and the rules governing organised crime in the area. The story is narrated through the actual testimony of the informant, a trope reminiscent of verbatim theatre which Carofiglio, an ex-anti-mafia judge himself, uses to great effect. The gangs are stopped but the mystery of the boy’s murder must still be solved, leading Fenoglio into a world of deep moral ambiguity, where the prosecutors are hard to distinguish from the prosecuted.
Gianrico Carofiglio is one of Italy's bestselling authors. He was previously a member of the Italian Senate and before that, an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Bari, a port on the coast of Puglia. He has been involved with trials concerning corruption, organised crime and the traffic in human beings. He has written a number of highly acclaimed crime novels and other literary fiction.
| SKU | GOR009360194 |
| ISBN 13 | 9781912242030 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912242036 |
| Title | The Cold Summer |
| Author | Gianrico Carofiglio |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Year published | 2018-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us |
