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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Another man stood by the window. Sergio Liguori did not work for them, a fact he repeated with a regularity that might have been amusing if his official salary had been enough to pay for his watch. He took his wallet from his jacket, opened it just far enough to show Luca his badge—a pointless professional reflex in a room where everyone knew who he was—then closed it.Read the excerpt ↗