cover image Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

Alexander Stille. Vintage Books USA, $16 (480pp) ISBN 978-0-679-76863-0

An excellent account of two Sicilian prosecutors whose investigation of the Mafia led to the top levels of the Italian government and eventually, to their own murders. (Aug.)