Book description
On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its 'Number One Enemy', the
legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also
killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards. Fifty-seven days later,
the Mafia killed Falcone's friend and colleague, Judge Paolo Borsellino,
with a car bomb outside his mother's home that also killed five
bodyguards. These two murders changed forever how Italy viewed the
Mafia. VENDETTA tells the inside story of the assassination plots and
the investigation that followed. Follain reveals Borsellino's desperate
race against time to find out who killed his friend while knowing he was
next on the list and reveals the daring undercover police mission which
unmasked the killers. Based on new and exclusive interviews and the
testimony of investigators, Mafia supergrasses, survivors, relatives and
friends, VENDETTA recounts the events hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute as
the Mafiosi plan and carry out the murders, and as the police hunt them
down. 'I was very much in the grip of this book. For two days I didn't
switch on the TV ... Follain's account will trouble you for days.'
John Follain was born in 1966. He studied at Oxford before joining
Reuters, for which he worked as a correspondent in Rome and Paris. He
has covered Italy for The
Sunday Times
since 1998. His previous books include DEATH IN PERUGIA, THE LAST
GODFATHERS, which was translated into 10 languages, MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND
and the international bestseller ZOYA'S STORY. He was voted runner-up
for the 2006 Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism, and nominated
for the 2008 Magazine Journalism Awards for his interview with the Knox
family.
