Excellent Cadavers by Alexander Stille

Excellent Cadavers by Alexander Stille

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.

Riveting.a well-paced and highly informative account stocked with well-drawn characters.--Philadelphia Inquirer

Masterful. Stille] delivers a stiletto-sharp portrait of the bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia.--Business Week

Alexander Stille is the author of The Future of the Past, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, and Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.

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ISBN 13	9780679425793
ISBN 10	0679425799
Title	Excellent Cadavers
Author	Alexander Stille
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	1995-04-18
Number of pages	467
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