Detective Leone Scamarcio, the son of a former leading mafioso, has turned his back on the family business, and has joined the Rome police force. He may be one of the last honest men in Italy. But when Scamarcio is handed a file of extremely compromising photographs of a high-profile Italian politician, and told to 'deal with it', he knows he's in for trouble. And when a young man is found stabbed to death in Rome, and a young American girl disappears on a beach in Elba, Scamarcio's job gets a whole lot more complicated. Worst of all, every lead seems to implicate the prime minister -- a multi-media baron, and the most powerful man in Italy. As the case spins out of control, and his own past catches up with him, Scamarcio must navigate the darkest currents of Italian society -- only to find that nothing is as it seems, and that the price of truth may be higher than he can pay.
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Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in het hart van Italiaanse corruptie en georganiseerde misdaad door de ogen van een rechercheur die zich heeft vervreemd van zijn maffia-verleden. Hij balanceert tussen de nalatenschap van zijn familie en zijn plicht als wetsdienaar. Elke aflevering onthult complexe samenzweringen en politieke intriges, waarbij het ontdekken van de waarheid een gevaarlijke prijs heeft. Het is een meeslepende reis naar de donkerste uithoeken van de samenleving, perfect voor fans van grimmige misdaadthrillers.




Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
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Detective Leone Scamarcio is called to an apparent suicide on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, a stone's throw from the Vatican. A man is hanging from the bridge, his expensive suit suggesting yet another businessman fallen on hard times. But Scamarcio is immediately troubled by similarities with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, 'God's Banker'.
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The Hit
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- 12 uur lezen
The investigation of a hit-and-run in Rome leads Detective Leone Scamarcio on a deadly journey to confront his Mafia past. When Leone Scamarcio is called to investigate an apparent hit-and-run, it seems like a job for a traffic officer, not one of Rome's top detectives. But when the victims are kidnapped on their way to the hospital, and Scamarcio discovers that they are the family of one of the country's top television executives, the infamous Micky Proietti, things start to get interesting. Everyone, it seems -- from Premier League footballers to jilted starlets and even the Calabrian Mafia -- has an axe to grind with Proietti. As Scamarcio delves into the underbelly of Italian show business, he discovers a possible connection between this investigation and his own Mafia father's right-hand man. To solve the case he must travel home to Calabria, but can he finally banish the ghosts of the past?
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The Extremist
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- 12 uur lezen
When a group of terrorists carry out a series of attacks in Rome, Detective Leone Scamarcio gets an unexpected call the men, who appear to be Islamic extremists, say they will only negotiate with him