I believe that each of us must be judged for what he or she has done. What matters are actions, not words. - Giovanni Falcone (1939-1992)
It is beautiful to die for something you believe in. - Paolo Borsellino (1940-1992)
Paperback: On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its 'Number One Enemy', the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards.
The prosecutor Luca Tescaroli, who investigated Falcone's murder, has called it "the most despicable of the ambushes that the history of our country remembers".
Fifty-seven days later, the Mafia killed Falcone's friend, colleague and an anti-Mafia magistrate, Judge Paolo Borsellino, with a car bomb outside his mother's home that also killed five bodyguards.
These two murders changed forever how Italy viewed the Mafia.
Follain is an incredible investigative writer and this latest book of his confirms that. Vendetta (2012) tells the inside story of the assassination plots and investigations that followed. It is divided into three parts: the Plot (1939-1992), the Ambush (23 May 1992 - 26 July 1992) and the Hunt (July 1992 - 2012).
Based on new and exclusive interviews and the testimony of investigators, Mafia supergrasses, survivors, relatives and friends, Follain's book recounts the events hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute as the Mafiosi plan and carry out the murders, and as the police hunt them down.
About the author: John Follain has covered Italy for the Sunday Times and the Sunday Times Magazine for the past thirteen years. His previous books include Death in Perugia (2012), The Last Godfathers (2009), which was translated into ten languages, Mussolini's Island (2005) and the international bestseller Zoya's Story (2002). He was voted runner-up for the 2006 Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism, and nominated for the 2008 Magazine Journalism Awards for his interview with the Knox family.
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