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BLACK SHADOWS
THE PAST DOES NOT DIE AND RETURNS DANGEROUSLY AGAINST THE REPUBLIC:
AN EXCITING MISSION OF COLONEL MARI AND LIEUTENANT BARBETTI
The incipit of the novel
It was Iolanda who had preferred the return trip in the comfortable first-class sleeping car of the Milan-Naples night train. Mari leaned out the window and took a deep breath, now watching the railroad ties flowing alongside the train, now the platforms and canopies approaching with crowds of travelers, railway workers, porters, newsboys, and drink vendors. He returned to the cabin when the clattering of the train and the screeching of the brakes became too much for him. "Do you think Lieutenant Barbetti will be waiting for us with the luggage cart?" Iolanda pointed despondently at the line of suitcases, bags, garment cases, and hatboxes. "We have all the time we need..." The sharp screech of brakes, wheels, axles, and bearings drowned out Mari's words, and the sudden jolt of the train threw them onto the sofa. After the commotion came a flash of calm, then immediately a jumble of incomprehensible shouts overlapped the usual indistinct noise, interrupted by the announcements of arrivals and departures broadcast over the loudspeakers.
THE BLACK SHADOWS
A coincidence, a simple coincidence and a misfortune, or rather a heinous crime, force Colonel Mari and Lieutenant Barbetti to face the world of black shadows that survives defeat and has decided to plot the conquest of the State in order to overthrow the State and the ideals of justice and freedom. Once again, the two officers act and fight to prevent the grave danger to democracy.
“The search for truth was difficult because those who had participated in the events did not all say the same things about the same events,
but spoke according to their memory or their sympathy for one of the two sides"
but spoke according to their memory or their sympathy for one of the two sides"