DAY OF THE OWL

In a Sicilian piazza a man is lying dead, shot twice in the back. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. Captain Bellodi is a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. But his enquiries are undermined from the beginning by those complicit with secret power, whose gossipy, furtive conversations have only one end: to stop the truth coming out. This short, taut novel is both a denunciation of the mafia and a mesmerizing portrayal of how it thrives.