by Giancarlo De Cataldo · ISBN 9782757803127
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«Romanzo criminale» is the crime novel by Giancarlo De Cataldo, published in paperback (731 pages, in French).
The narrative opens with an old man who, after being mugged in Rome, brandishes a weapon to recover his wallet. From there it reconstructs the rise of the Magliana gang between 1977 and 1992: robberies, alliances with the P2 Lodge, black terrorism, secret services, corrupt politicians, and murders.
Work originally published in 2002; this French edition is from 2007, in the Points policier collection. It won the Scerbanenco Prize (2003) and the Prix du Polar Européen (2006).
For readers of crime fiction and historical fiction interested in organized crime, political corruption, and Italy in the seventies and eighties.
Giancarlo De Cataldo is an Italian crime novelist, screenwriter and dramatist.
