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Book Review:
Pete Robb, Midnight In Sicily, Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney 1996.

Midnight in Sicily, which was first published in Australia in October 1996, is a great novel which dig's deep into the truth and reveals the possible facts about the Cosa Nostra and it's operations in Italy, especially in the South, which is referred to as the ‘Mezzo Giorno'. Pete Robb a native Australian, who recently published ‘A death In brazil', lived in the mezzo giorno for 15 years and who worked as an English teacher, has the time to experience Italy's Art, Culture, Food, History, Landscape and Travel, in doing so he sometimes relates to the Cosa Nostra.

"Pasta con le sarde is a kind of mosaic in which each little piece finds its reason for being there in the final result". (pg 89)

Midnight in Sicily also shows the workings of organized crime in daily life and the connections it had with politicians, especially the relationship of the Mafia and the Christian democrats. The book also......

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