The Memory of Evil

Commissario Balistreri #3

Roberto Costantini

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Headline
10 May 2016

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Fiction in translation

The memory of 31 August 1969 has been at the back of Commissario Michele Balistreri's mind for over four decades. It was not only the day that preceded Colonel Muammar Gadaffi's seizure of power in Balistreri's birthplace of Libya, drastically altering his and his country's destiny, but that on which his beloved mother Natalia fell to her death, and the resulting suicide verdict that Balistreri - now Head of Homicide in Rome - has always suspected to be a flagrant cover-up for her murder. The memory of 23 July 2006 has been at the front of investigative journalist Linda Nardi's mind for the past five years. Ever since her and Balistreri together thwarted a phantom-like killer stalking Rome, Nardi has been intent on shedding further light on the Vatican Bank's shadowy involvement in the abominations uncovered that summer. But now Linda will find her attention diverted to an equally irresistible assignment: the collapse of Colonel Gadaffi's forty-two year dictatorship.

By: Roberto Costantini
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9780857389404
ISBN 10: 0857389408
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 10 May 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roberto Costantini was born in Tripoli in 1952. Formerly an engineer and business consultant, he is now a manager of the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, where he also teaches on the MBA program.

Reviews for The Memory of Evil: Commissario Balistreri #3

Balistreri: one of the most fully realized protagonists in modern crime fiction. - Independent Costantini has created a fascinating protagonist. - Guardian Utterly compelling. The action is nonstop and the tension unlimited. Passionate portrayal of a corrupt and criminal Italy. - The Times Sprawling, violent and beset by a tortured morality, this is a compelling vision of modern Italy. - Mail on Sunday