District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this string of murders an individual vendetta or a more sinister plot? The charming Inspector Rogas is determined to find out. The pursuit of truth and justice are Rogas's vocation, but his work is frustrated by a system which defies his understanding. He needs a key, a way in, a map, and he is sure that his chief suspect Cres can provide it...The book, written in 1971, uncannily prefigures the Red Brigade's subsequent killing of magistrates and the Catholic-Communist pact of the late 1970s in Italy. Developed under Sciascia's hand in the spirit of a parody, Equal Danger has come to be regarded as a wide-ranging political thriller, one of the masterpieces of the genre.
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Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Sicilia, 1921-Milán, 1989) estudió magisterio en Caltanissetta y dedicó parte de su juventud a la enseñanza. Posteriormente empezó una brillante carrera periodística para después convertirse en uno de los novelistas italianos más importantes de la posguerra. Su obra, así como su activismo político, estuvieron marcados por una decidida oposición a cualquier manifestación abusiva del poder, en particular el de la Mafia. Tusquets Editores ha publicado numerosas obras suyas, entre otras las tituladas Todo modo, 1912+1, El contexto, El caballero y la muerte, Una historia sencilla, La desaparición de Majorana, El día de la lechuza, A cada cual, lo suyo o El caso Moro.