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 Carte Blanche - Carlo Lucarelli
 Carte Blanche - Carlo Lucarelli ... Fascist Salo Republic. It features a brutal murder on the good side of town lands Commissario De Luca in the middle of a hornet's nest where the rich and powerful mix drugs, sex, money and murder.Newest Review: ... Carlo Lucarelli, which I thought was an excellent book, so I was delighted to find that more of his work has now been ... more ... translated into English. This is apparently the first of a trilogy of books featuring De Luca against the background of Fascist Italy and its efforts to rediscover itself as a country. I was interested to read in a forward by the author that the books are based on the life of a police officer from that period, interviewed by Lucarelli for a thesis he was writing.
As a character, De Luca does not particularly stand out in any way. He is a stubborn man who likes to do a good job and because of that, is often forced to go again...more |
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Carte Blanche (De Luca Trilogy 1)
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Carte Blanche - Carlo Lucarelli: Murder in Fascist Italy (760 words)
by - written on 02/06/07 (Very useful, 127 readings)
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De Luca, a police officer recently transferred from the Political Police, is called to investigate the murder of a wealthy man with strong political connections during the last years of the Second World War. His political connections mean that De Luca and his colleague, Pugliese, are frequently thwarted from doing their job - even their own superiors want them to carry out the investigation in a certain direction to avoid upsetting the 'wrong' people. Despite this, De Luca is determined to find out the truth, especially when the caretaker of the building in which the murder occured and his wife are both brutally silenced. In the highly sensitive political ... Read the complete review
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