TRAITORS TO ALL

One balmy spring evening on the outskirts of Milan a Fiat with two passengers plunges into a canal At first their deaths are registered as an accident But the suave Duca Lamberti a doctor turned detective suspects there s more to it than that Because that same canal has been the scene of other deaths and all the incidents have one man in a lawyer with a murky past stretching all the way back to World War II a man who in fact once shared a prison cell with Lamberti Winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1968 Traitors to All lays bare the connections between Milan s troubled history during the war and its swinging sixties affluence as well as an utterly absorbing tale of betrayal and revenge