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The Cold Summer
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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The Cold Summer
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Summary
The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that's not the reason why it is still remembered.
On 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. Fenoglio, 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.
The 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.
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- Catherine
- 17-09-18
It's brilliant.
I have loved everyone of carofiglio's novels as read by Sean Barrett. Utterly convincing. Dark and light intertwined. Characters striving to be good in the complexity of life. More please.
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- The Curator
- 22-04-23
Excellent
One of the things I love about Carofiglio’s books is that they are all about people. Mostly fairly average people in strange situations, as crime is to most. There’s not a lot of running around with guns, no car chases and plots come together through people talking and thinking. It’s probably more true to life than the maverick cop with wild hunches and it makes for a nice change of pace.
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- Doug Fleming
- 09-02-22
Not his best
I have enjoyed Carofiglio’s other books but this was a bit of a disappointment. Basically it’s a recital of questions and answers involving a Mafiosa. SB’s narration is as good as always.
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- Linda
- 25-04-20
A bit of a disappointment
I adore the Guido Guerrieri books and therefore fell on this with delight. It was a perfectly pleasant listen but not very inspiring as it really just lays out facts. True they are laid before us in different ways but there are no twists to this tale, no clever legal footwork or insight. I obviously missed what a lot of other reviewers found so good about this - and so you may well be the same - its probably worth giving it a go.
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