{"product_id":"the-cold-summer-9781912242030","title":"The Cold Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bitter Lemon Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Legal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that's not the reason why it is still remembered.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFenoglio, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bitter Lemon Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45033456926871,"sku":"9781912242030","price":810.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781912242030.webp?v=1769209474","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-cold-summer-9781912242030","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}