Books by Carlo Bonini
Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror
by Carlo Bonini, Giuseppe D'Avanzo
"Bonini and D'Avanzo are the Woodward and Bernstein of Italian journalism. They, more than any other reporters, penetrated the Iraqi uranium fraud—one of the great, and most consequential, scams of our time."—Michael Isikoff, author Hubris
"These two reporters, authors of this book, are truth seekers who do the kind of hard, honest work that all reporters should do—find the truth and print it."—Seymour Hersh, author Chain of Command
“Probes the most enigmatic questions at the heart of the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in American history."—Craig Unger, author House of Bush, House of Saud
After George Bush pronounced the reasons behind going to war in Iraq—the infamous "sixteen words"—it was La Repubblica reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo who discovered that Bush's "smoking gun" evidence was fake, planted by Italy's intelligence agency, SISMI. Now Bonini and D'Avanzo, Italy’s two most important investigative reporters, expand the story, incorporating stunning new information about international terrorism investigations and pre-war intelligence. Of particular importance are the details of a series of secret pre-war meetings in Rome between high-ranking Bush administration officials and Iranian agents.
Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D’Avanzo work for Rome’s La Repubblica newspaper.
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The Night of Rome
by Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
“Razor-sharp political thriller set in Berlusconi’s Rome.”―The New Statesman
Things are changing in Rome. The new Pope, determined to bring radical reform to the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary Jubilee year, one “of Mercy.” A new center-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor. And with crime lynchpin Samurai in jail, his protégé Sebastiano Laurenti attempts to establish himself as the designated successor. But he must reckon not only with a new generation of enterprising gangsters and racketeers―out to carve for themselves a slice of the profits and opportunities offered by the major public works planned for the Jubilee―but also with ambitious newly elected politician, Chiara Visone.
Betrayals, ambushes and infighting will inevitably alter the fragile political balance in the Eternal City. As the sharks circle, some tenuous hope endures in the unlikely alliance of an incorruptible politician of the old left and a young bishop who refuses to play the Vatican’s power games. But it remains to be seen whether, in the long night of Rome, there is room for redemption.
Sharp, dark and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events.
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Suburra
by Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
The “razor-sharp political thriller set during the dying days of Berlusconi’s regime” that inspired the Netflix original series (New Statesman).
This “fast-moving crime thriller” takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where crime families, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize―a multibillion-dollar development twenty miles from the Italian capital (Publishers Weekly).
During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi’s reign, a massive development proposal that will turn the depressed coastal settlement of Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates. It’s business as usual in the Italian capital. Or so it seems. A vicious gang of local thugs loyal to nobody but themselves is insisting on a bigger cut than agreed upon. The Mafia and their political puppets aren’t going to back down without a fight. And one policeman, pushed to the sidelines, may not be able to stop an all-out war . . .With a plot that “thrills from the get-go,” Suburra is a compelling work of international crime fiction and the inspiration for the popular Netflix series of the same name (New Statesman).
“A novel of Rome, meaning that the city itself, in all its history, glory, and despair, is skillfully sewn into the fiber of the tale. . . . Evokes Mario Puzo’s famous trilogy and other classics of the genre.”―Kirkus Reviews
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