The Moro Affair - New York Review Books Classics | Historical Political Thriller | Perfect for Book Clubs & History Enthusiasts

I read this book in its Spanish edition expecting to find something interesting about power. This a theme or a topic very interesting to me given the fact that its understanding give us the possibility of knowing a lot about ourselves.The Moro affair took place in Italy on 1978. I just was a teenager when all this happened so I don't remember so much about it. In fact, having read Sciascia before I expected to find his meditations on the affair and not a detailed record of what happened day by day. I was interested in those meditations and that's what I got.Sciascia is a writer whose focus is not so much in the story as in the plot itself that triggered the story. The context. And its meaning. Sciascia is not James Ellroy let alone Michael Connelly. The problem to Sciascia is not the serial killer as the meaning of being killed by a madman.So why the Red Brigades kidnapped Moro? What did Moro do to be kidnapped? What did Italy do for him? What did his friends do to rescue him? Why did everything go wrong even the most common actions that the police follows in these cases?Yes, only questions of a very lucid mind. So I insist: this is not a chronicle or a spies tale. Far from that. Thus, if you are interested about what power is and what can make to people, just buy the book and read it.Very good indeed.