{"product_id":"excellent-cadavers-the-mafia-and-the-death-of-the-first-italian-republic-9780679768630","title":"Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic","description":"In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest \"excellent cadavers\" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of \"men of honor\" were arrested and the government that ad protected them for nearly half a century was at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tells with such insight and immediacy in \u003cb\u003eExcellent Cadavers\u003c\/b\u003e. Combining a profound understanding of his doomed heroes with and unprecedented look into the Mafia's stringent codes and murderous rivalries, he gives us a book that has the power of a great work of history and the suspense of a true thriller. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Riveting...a well-paced and highly informative account stocked with well-drawn characters.\"--Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Masterful... Stille] delivers a stiletto-sharp portrait of the bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia.\"--Business Week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Stille\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExcellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBenevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903548821778,"sku":"9780679768630","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3056878e-2dab-47e4-8290-c6254717afb1.jpg?v=1738497342","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/excellent-cadavers-the-mafia-and-the-death-of-the-first-italian-republic-9780679768630","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}