The Prosecutor Author:Magdalen Nabb, Paolo Vagheggi It is 1988, and the war on terrorism goes on. Ten years earlier, the Red Brigades' kidnapping and brutal murder of Italian statesman Carlo Rota shocked the world. Only the Substitute Prosecutor of the Republic of Italy, who has been called "terrorism's most predatory enemy," continues the fruitless search for ... more »the real perpetrators of the crime; a search long since relegated to the inactive files of every other official in Florence.
Years of success and autonomy have made Lapo Bardi arrogant, however, and he has never forgotten the one terrorist able to elude his grasp -- the perhaps mythical Grand Old Man, the mastermind behind the Red Brigades' action, rumor of whose existence stretches over those ten intervening years like a shadow -- a shadow into which Bardi is about to step.
A breakthrough in his investigation finally seems imminent. A senior member of the resurgent Red Brigades is about to trade in his silence for a lightened sentence, and his information will heat up the long-cold trail.
Many in Italy, Bardin knows, would prefer that the shroud of silence that descended over the Rota killing remain undisturbed. He doesn't know that they indclude high-ranking officials of both Church and State, whose involvement Bardi can only begin to suspect. Assembling, clue by painstaking clue, pieces of the identity of the Grand Old Man is only one part of the job Bardi has taken upon himself--staying alive is very much the other. As he draws closer to the truth, the forces of those who would silence him and those who would protect him combine to make the prosecutor the prey of the enemy he seeks.« less
ISBN-13: 9780312014971 ISBN-10: 031201497X Publication Date: 12/1987 Pages:256 Edition:1st U.S. E Rating: