PAOLO VAGHEGGI was born in Arezzo, Tuscany, in 1951 and has lived in Florence since 1971. He has been the Tuscan correspondent for the daily newspaper La Repubblica, writing on politics, cultural events and the important criminal cases. He also worked on the Florentine daily La Nazione and during the 1970s specialized almost exclusively in terrorism. His relaxations are music, especially Mozart, and good wine. (Bio date: 1986)

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Magdalen Nabb and Paolo Vagheggi

The Prosecutor

JACKET NOTES: 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 behand an impassive wall of silenceBut 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...
(©Fontana/Collins)

Magdalen Nabb has also written Thirteen
mystery novels in the Marshal Guarnaccia Series

Magdalen Nabb Book List
Death of an Englishman | Death of a Dutchman | Death in Springtime
Death in Autumn | The Marshal and the Murderer
The Marshal and the Madwoman | The Marshal's Own Case
The Marshal Makes His Re port | The Marshal at the Villa Torrini
The Monster of Florence | Property of Blood | Some Bitter Taste
The Innocent | Vita Nuova
The Prosecutor (Non-series w/co-author: Paolo Vagheggi)