Product description
Foreword by Laura Marinaro, crime journalist, expert in crime and judicial news
Introduction by Danilo Moriero, head of “Città dei Motori”, the network of motoring “Made in Italy” municipalities
Familiar faces and names that often cross paths and crop up time and time again. Men of the state or the underworld. Everyday heroes or elusive characters, always poised between legality and business, crime and politics. They travel along the Italian peninsula, from south to north, always by car, almost always in Alfa Romeos: powerful, fast and often armour-plated.
An exploration of the 20th century, of that history of Italy in which Alfa has always been a protagonist, from wartime bombing of the Portello, passing by way of the escape of lovers Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci and the death of an enlightened executive such as Ugo Gobbato. And again: the Pasolini murder and the trade union struggles in the Arese factory, the violence of the Red Brigades, through to the blackest episodes of the 1970s, captured in a crime film genre that represents the distilled essence and translation of that history. From the political-criminal plots linking parliamentary figures to Cosa Nostra, world-famous millionaire robberies, police stories, breathtaking chases and unusual murders.
This is “ALFA NOIR. News, stories and crimes at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo”: twenty-seven stories told with an abundance of details – many of them previously unpublished – with number plates, chassis numbers and specifications that will help you understand a troubled yet remarkable century in which Alfa Romeo cars were undisputed protagonists.
