Magdalen Nabb and Paolo Vagheggi: The Prosecutor (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
'The superb Ms Nabb, her human touch as sure as ever, and investigative journalist Vagheggi spin a web of contemporary enigmas to excite and trouble.' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH/OBSERVER

Italy 1988 -ten years since the kidnapping and brutal murder of statesman Carlo Rota shocked the world. The Red Brigades terrorists responsible have gone unpunished, shielded behind an impassive wall of silence.

But for arrogant Substitute Prosecutor Lapo Bardi, the war against terrorism must go on. Over the years he has become obsessed with the idea that one powerful man, a Godfather figure, is behind all the violence. And when a minor member of the Red Brigades decides to talk Bardi believes his chance has come to uncover the truth.

The tortuous quest for answers takes him from the prison cells of terrorists to the highest echelons of the Military Secret Service and the Vatican City and into deadly danger...

'Marvellous storytellings-deep knou of the workings of Ital ian terrorism. an a cording and exciting thriller.' -- POLICE

Magdalen Nabb and Paolo Vagheggi: The Prosecutor. Fontana, ISBN: 0006173535 (May, 1987), 256 p., £2.50.