A Conspiracy of Talkers

AMERICAN LIEUTENANTBenjamin Adano investigates some missing trucks, while the Carabinieri implicate an innocent man for a mayor’s murder. The entire town, from the priest to the poet, gets caught in a web of half-truths and deception. Class, generational, and political conflicts, poverty and war form the backdrop of this skillfully translated masterpiece of crime narrative. The tension between truth and lies, between words and silence fill this small-town Sicilian drama to mirror the larger devastating effects of injustice, both personal and societal. “There are pages in this little book of high narrative quality.… moments of strong narrative intensity that reveal Savatteri as a natural-born storyteller…it’s a kind of challenge, respectful and courageous: it’s the conscientious, rational, sober acceptance of a difficult legacy.” — Andrea Camilleri, author of the Montalbano Series Translated by Steve Eaton.— Google Books