Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
by Alexander Stille
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679768637
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768630
- Seller
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Missoula, Montana, United States
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About This Item
In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of "men of honor" were arrested and the government that ad protected them for nearly half a century was at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tells with such insight and immediacy in Excellent Cadavers. Combining a profound understanding of his doomed heroes with and unprecedented look into the Mafia's stringent codes and murderous rivalries, he gives us a book that has the power of a great work of history and the suspense of a true thriller.
Synopsis
Excellent Cadavers is a 1995 non-fiction book by American author Alexander Stille about the Sicilian Mafia, concentrating on magistrate Giovanni Falcone's fight against the Mafia and his 1992 assassination.
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Details
- Seller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SQ0916964
- Title
- Excellent Cadavers
- Author
- Alexander Stille
- Format/Binding
- Ex-library
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679768637
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768630
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- August 6, 1996
- Keywords
- mafia
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;