Carlo Bonini

USA, viaggio nella prigione del terrore

Guantanamo

Giancarlo De Cataldo

Suburra

John Sweeney

Manuel Delia

If we are judged by the nature of our enemies, then Daphne Caruana Galizia should be remembered as a hero of our time. She was Malta's most fearless journalist until someone with money and power decided that she should be silenced forever. Her assassination on 16th October 2017 was a brutal blow to anyone who cares about the truth. MURDER ON THE MALTESE EXPRESS

Murder on The Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia?

Rom brennt, stinkt vom Müll auf den Straßen. Immigrantenheime gehen in Flammen auf, die Stadt versinkt unregierbar im Chaos. Anstifter im Hintergrund ist Sebastiano, ein smarter junger Mann, zum Bösen erzogen von Samurai, der vom Gefängnis aus die Fäden zieht. Papst Franziskus hat das Heilige Jahr der Barmherzigkeit verkündet. Eine unheilige Allianz von korrupten Politikern, vatikanischen Würdenträgern und Unternehmern setzt alles daran, öffentliche Aufträge an sich zu reißen und den Geldstrom in die eigene Tasche fließen zu lassen. Ein junger Bischof und ein unbestechlicher Politiker stellen sich mutig dem organisierten Verbrechen entgegen.

Thriller

Die Nacht von Rom

Das größte Bauvorhaben, das Rom je gesehen hat, stinkt nach Korruption, Betrug und kaltblütigem Mord! Rom zwischen Ostia und Cinecittà - Ein brutaler Bandenkrieg erschüttert die Straßen. Kommissar Malatesta erahnt den wahren Grund hinter der Fehde: ein riesiges Bauvorhaben, das die Peripherie Roms bis zur Küste von Ostia mit Casinos, Hotels, Clubs zubetonieren soll. Nicht nur korrupte Behörden, Mafia und Zigeunerclans ziehen am selben schmutzigen Strang, sondern auch Würdenträger aus Kirche und Politik. Allen voran Samurai, der letzte Überlebende der Magliana-Bande und eiskalter Neo-Faschist - mit dem einzigen Ziel: Geld.

Schwarzes Herz von Rom. Thriller

Night of Rome

Daphne Caruana Galizia è morta a Bidnija, a nord di Malta, uccisa da una bomba che ha fatto saltare in aria la sua Peugeot 108 mentre lei era a bordo. Aveva cinquantatré anni, un marito e tre figli, ed era una delle giornaliste più famose a Malta, per via delle sue inchieste sull’evasione fiscale internazionale, che hanno legato l’isola ai Panama Papers. Non è ancora noto il nome di chi ha ucciso Daphne. Ma la sua storia getta luce su una verità fino a oggi ignorata, una verità scomoda che l’Europa preferisce non vedere. Malta è “lo Stato nel Mediterraneo che fa da base pirata per l’evasione fiscale nell’Unione europea”, ha scritto la giornalista nei suoi Maltafiles. Poco più grande dell’isola d’Elba, Malta ha iscritti nei registri della camera di commercio locale 53.247 società e 581 fondi di investimento. Negli ultimi dieci anni ha drenato all’economia dell’Unione europea 8,2 miliardi di euro. Carlo Bonini si mette sulle tracce delle indagini di Daphne per riprendere le fila della coraggiosa inchiesta internazionale che ha rivelato il centro di un sistema inquietante di elusione fiscale, corruzione e crimine organizzato. E nella ricostruzione della storia tragica di una grande giornalista mostra che il cuore corrotto dell’Europa si trova nella sua periferia, eppure riguarda il giro d’affari di tutta l’Unione. La storia di Daphne è la storia di Malta e del marcio che la politica europea preferisce ignorare.

La sfida di Daphne al cuore corrotto dell'Europa

L'isola assassina

Suburra takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize--control over a multibillion dollar development twenty miles from the Italian capital. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a massive development proposal that will turn the depressed coastal settlement of Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates. It's business as usual in the Italian capital. Or so it seems. A vicious gang of local thugs loyal to nobody but themselves is insisting on a bigger cut than agreed upon. The Mafia and their political puppets aren't going to back down without a fight.--Provided by publisher.

Giancarlo de Cataldo

When an Italian kingpin falls, a battle of successors begins in this “razor-sharp political thriller set in Berlusconi’s Rome” (The New Statesman). Things are changing in Rome. The new Pope, determined to reform the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary Jubilee year, one “of Mercy.” A new center-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor. And with the underworld kingpin Samurai in jail, his protégé Sebastiano Laurenti plans to establish himself as his designated successor. But to do it, he must reckon with a new generation of gangsters and racketeers edging in on the corrupt profits to be made off the Jubilee’s public works. Meanwhile, Laurenti must also keep an eye on the ambitious newly elected politician Chiara Visone. As the sharks circle and the street-dogs fight, a tenuous hope endures. An incorruptible politician of the old left is about to forge an unlikely alliance with a young bishop who refuses to play the Vatican’s power games. Sharp, dark, and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events.

The Night of Rome

Fast-paced crime thriller set in Rome: Gomorrah meets House of Cards Suburra will be released as a Netflix original series in 2017 Criminals on the rise and senior members of the Italian mafia clash in and around Rome over the backing of an urban development bill that promises to turn the seaside town of Ostia into a gambling paradise. The problems plaguing the political system of contemporary Italy are played out against this florid, cinematic background. Before the end of Berlusconi's days, a massive real estate development bill that will bury the city's outskirts under tons of cement remains on the floor in the Italian parliament. Ostia, a small dot of a town on the coast, could become Italy's equivalent of Las Vegas with the passing of this renewal project. With Italian MPs either in their pockets or forced to vote because of blackmail or the kidnapping of a loved one, the mafia is set to cash-in on the future of this seaside retreat. The local bosses of Ostia however, tired of staying in their place, feel entitled to a larger cut. When the son of a feared Ostia gangster is brutally stabbed and left lifeless on the streets, the safeties come off and all-out war is sparked. Each vote for the bill, will either be caused by blood or bought by way of bribery. "In Suburra, the incidents revealed by the Mafia Capitale investigation were already in large part recounted in the vivid and hard tones (here and there with a bit 'splatter,' a la Quentin Tarantino) of 'fiction,' but with the realistic breadth that captures a great city tragically 'delivered' to political, economic and criminal corruption." - La Repubblica

Giuseppe D'Avanzo

la guerra al terrorismo islamico, inchiesta sull'inganno italiano

Il mercato della paura

In a Woodward and Bernstein-style expos, Italian reporters Bonini and D'Avanzo broke a political story that, at first, seemed harmless but eventually resulted in an all-out manipulation of the war on terror.

International Espionage and the War on Terror

Collusion

Giancarlo de De Cataldo

In the night of Rome, nothing is what it seems. It’s all change in Rome. The new Pope, determined to bring radical reform to the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary Jubilee year of Mercy. A new centre-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor, and sets about to rejuvenate the language of politics. And with crime lynchpin Samurai in jail, his protégé Sebastiano Laurenti attempts to establish himself as his designated successor. But he must reckon not only with a new generation of enterprising gangsters and racketeers—out to carve for themselves a slice of the profits and opportunities offered by the major public works planned for the Jubilee—but also with ambitious newly elected politician Chiara Visoni, and his own heart. Betrayals, alliances forged and broken, ambushes and infighting will inevitably alter the fragile political balance. As the sharks circle and the street-dogs fight, some tenuous hope endures, in the unlikely alliance of an incorruptible politician of the old left, all but forgotten, and a young bishop who refuses to play the Vatican’s power games. But it remains to be seen whether the long night of Rome can make room for redemption. Sharp and fast-paced, dark and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events.

Carlo Bonini

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