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Giovanni Falcone's novel. A book about a fighter against the Mafia, written by one of its combatants. Falcone died in 1992—along with his wife and three bodyguards—when his car exploded on the highway leading from Palermo to the airport. Saviano is still alive—writing and denouncing corruption—but under threat, under protection, and with bodyguards. Two explosions frame the novel: the first occurs in 1943 in the town of Corleone, when a family tampers with an unexploded Allied bomb to dismantle and sell it. Something goes wrong, the bomb explodes, and everyone dies except for a child. The survivor is Totò Riina, the future capo dei capi, the man who will order Falcone's assassination in 1992 with the book's second explosion.