A new biography of the novelist who exposed the Sicilian mafia

In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history. Among the 471 defendants rattling their cages was the entire leadership of the Sicilian Mob. In the press gallery sat Leonardo Sciascia, a novelist whose detective stories had done more to expose the mafia's reality than any official effort. — Read the rest

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