Equal Danger
District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are...
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District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are the cynical, fashionable, comfortable revolutionaries to revolution—or anything? Who is doing what to whom?Equal Danger is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extreme—and gripping—depiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590170625 (1590170628)
ASIN: 1590170628
Publish date: October 31st 2003
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 119
Edition language: English
Parodia. Si fa per dire. In un paese sconosciuto (ma non troppo) muoiono assassinati alcuni giudici. L’ispettore Rogas, uomo di grande rettitudine, è incaricato di indagare. L’attenzione cade su un certo Cres, condannato ingiustamente per il tentato omicidio della moglie. Ingiustamente. Qualcuno l’h...
☯Bettie☯ Athosella's review Jun 26, 10 · edit 3 of 5 stars bookshelves: summer-2010, italy, mystery-thriller, published-1974, translation Read from June 23 to 27, 2010 Translated from the Italian by Adrienne FoulkeDistrict Attorney Varga was conducting the prosecution in the Reis trial, whi...
The beginning was magnificent (better than To Each His Own) - then I found the turn to the political to be less compelling -- but the ending grabbed... 4.5 stars. Definitely worth a read.
Translated from the Italian by Adrienne FoulkeDistrict Attorney Varga was conducting the prosecution in the Reis trial, which had been going on for almost a month and would have dragged on for at least two more when, one mild May night, after ten and not later than twelve, according to various testi...
This was recommended bu a Goodreads friend. (Thanks.) I've been hooked on foreign police procedurals for a while now, Mankell, Leon, Larsson, Turston, Eriksson and some other unspellables from Norway and Sweden. I guess what I really like about them is the sense of grayness and dark. There's a gl...
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