Description
Product ID: | 9780099594918 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Excellent Cadavers |
Subtitle: | The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic |
Authors: | Author: Alexander Stille |
Page Count: | 480 |
Subjects: | True crime, True crime, Italy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. The public outcry demanded their work was completed, which led to the toppling of crucial political alliances. Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the two Sicilian prosecutors who in the 1980s took the war against the Mafia further than anyone had ever dared. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1996-06-06 |