The Dead in the Square
Italy, June, 1944. During the German retreat from Rome, Lieutenant Colonel Martin Bora is held back by anti-Nazi Wehrmacht commanders and ordered to the eastern mountains of Abruzzi. It is a high risk mission, meant to recover the precious Churchill-Mussolini correspondence, entrusted months earlier for safe-keeping by Il Duce to an old socialist friend. The latter, Luigi Borgonovo, is a lawyer and a political exile in a remote village of the Abruzzi region. Once he secures the correspondence, Bora’s orders are to eliminate the sole witness of the events: Borgonovo himself.
Faithful to his duty, although troubled at the thought of murdering an elderly civilian in cold blood, Bora arrives at Faracruci, where Borgonovo is forced to reside. Within a few hours, everything becomes even more complicated, thanks to a nameless corpse found lying in the main square. Who is the dead man? What brought him to Faracruci? Was it the same reason behind Bora’s mission – recovering the perilous correspondence – or an even more dramatic and twisted set of circumstances? Who is the assassin? And what does all of this have to do with a murder dating back to 1919?
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