The evil of Corcira, of Lorenzo Silva

The evil of Corcira

The tenth case of Bevilacqua and Chamorro leads them to solve a crime that transports the second lieutenant to his past in the fight against terrorism in the Basque Country. A new installment of this great series of Lorenzo Silva.

A middle-aged man appears naked and brutally murdered on a lonely beach in Formentera. According to several testimonies collected by the Civil Guard of the islands, in the previous days he had been seen in the company of different young people in gay clubs in Ibiza.

When his bosses call Bevilacqua to take over the investigation and inform him of the peculiarity of the deceased, a Basque citizen once convicted of collaboration with ETA, the second lieutenant will understand that it is not just another case.

To try to clarify the crime, and after investigating on the ground, Bevilacqua will have to move with his team to Guipúzcoa, the place of residence of the deceased, to an area that he knows well for his involvement almost thirty years ago in the fight against terrorism.

There he must overcome the mistrust of the victim's environment and, above all, deal with his own ghosts from the past, with what he did and what he did not do in a "war" between fellow citizens, like the one that took place twenty-five centuries ago in Corcira. —Today Corfu — and which Thucydides described in all its harshness. Those ghosts will lead you to an uncomfortable question that inexcusably concerns you as a human being and as a criminal investigator: to what extent does what we fight against shape us?

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