In the StoryTwice in Naples
He is the godfather’s son. He remembers being the police officer who arrested him. In Naples, Luca Ruggiero knows the family, its loyalties, and the silences that let him keep his place. Yet another life opens an incompatible path: one in which he investigated, chose the other side, and brought his father, Vittorio, to justice.
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His father’s glass-walled office overlooked the loading area. As a child, Luca had been forbidden to enter with dirty shoes. At thirty-five, he came in with balance sheets, contracts, problems that never appeared on balance sheets. The furniture had barely changed: the chair’s green leather, the filing cabinet, a photograph of Vittorio Ruggiero twenty-five years earlier shaking hands with a deputy mayor long since dead. Only the air conditioning had been replaced. It blew too hard and…Read the excerpt ↗