BOOKS OF WAR 5: Police and Thieves (Patreon)

1898. Inspector Ermanno Sangiorgi is transferred to Palermo in the middle of a mafia war. Leopoldo Notarbartolo begins his own amateur investigation to bring his father’s killers to justice. Don Raffaele Palizzolo is eventually arrested, while Sangiorgi launches a series of raids designed to bring the entire mafia hierarchy down in an unprecedented “maxi-trial”. But the mafia soon mobilises a network of influential protectors, and Sangiorgi and Leopold find themselves facing defeat and humiliation.