Author
Daniele Pronestì
Publisher:
Bompiani
Release Date:
11-06-2025
Giuseppe Bellingeri: Calabrian, engineer, secret service agent recently returned to civilian life, a gray wolf. Yes, because in the world depicted in this novel other animals move alongside humans, perfectly dressed and talking. So, when a body is found in an apartment in Morgese, a small village in the heart of the Reggio Calabria plain, it is Deputy Police Chief Balbino, a brown bear and head of the mobile squad, who calls Giuseppe Bellingeri, knowing that he knew the victim, a young woman in love with freedom. And it will be in a universe teeming with humans, martens, salamanders, hawks, and other animals of all kinds that Bellingeri will have to move to discover who wanted to kill Maria.
In this Calabria, at the crossroads between the Mediterranean atmosphere and the California of Philip Marlowe, where stately buildings stand out against the Strait of Messina, immigrants sweat in the fields and the shadow of organized crime extends its tentacles despite the dazzling sun, Daniele Pronestì brings to life an extraordinary gallery of characters, guided by their purest instincts and, precisely for this reason, capable of vividly representing our baseness, our desires, and the courage necessary to choose to be human.