MOB APPEAL.(The Talk of the Town)(Gianrico Carofiglio)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-DEC-05

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"It was May 14, 2002. I was in my office with two policemen," Gianrico Carofiglio, an Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor, began. "And then my phone rang. The two guys that were in my room look at me because my face was--how can I say?--strange. They didn't know what was going on."

The caller wasn't a gravel-voiced tipster or a menacing don. It was a book editor, phoning to say that he wanted to publish a manuscript that Carofiglio had submitted. Carofiglio is not only a prominent procuratore della Repubblica; now he is also one of his country's best-selling authors. He made a name in the...

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