From the fight against the ‘ndrangheta to fiction: the Senior Director of the State Police Francesco Rattà signs his literary debut with “L’incastro dei cocci (An investigation of 2007)”, a realistic mystery that mixes intrigue, drug trafficking and investigative tension set in the early 2000s.
The Plot
An intertwining of some deviant parts of the institutions and the underworld The novel starts from the suicide of Giulia De Santis, a young law student, apparently a tragic isolated episode.
Soon, however, the investigation by Deputy Commissioner Antonio Cicala in Zancarota reveals unexpected connections: the disappearance of Mariangela Colussi, niece of a Senator member of the Anti-Mafia Commission, a mafia-style murder in Milan and a complex international cocaine trafficking run by a fugitive from the ‘Ndrangheta.
Cicala, supported by an astute informer and, unbeknownst to him, by a priest friend found after thirty years, must piece together the “pieces” of a fragmented truth, confronting a devious and pervasive crime.
The author
Francesco Rattà, born in 1968, was born in Montepaone, a small town in the province of Catanzaro. He completed his university studies in law at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome where he graduated in 1994.
The author brings into this novel all the experience accumulated over decades of service in the State Police. Former director of the Flying Squad of Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria and Rome, former Vicar of the Police Commissioner of Rome and today Director of the Joint Analysis Office at the Anti-Mafia Prevention Structure of the Ministry of the Interior, Rattà offers the reader an authentic vision of the investigative mechanisms and risks of work in the field.
With this novel, the author does not limit himself to just telling a fictional story, but takes the reader inside the complex mechanisms of investigative intelligence.
“L’incastro dei cocci” is therefore a novel of justice and suspense that captures the reader from the first to the last page, confirming that, often, reality remains the best starting point for a breathtaking narrative.