The greatest compliment one can pay this fascinating book is to say that it reads like a fable about power anywhere in the world * Independent * Sciascia's perceptive treatment of this horrible business brings out the black comedy of Moro's plight and he draws on Pirandello, Borges and Foucault in a brilliant examination of the nature of rhetoric and power * Sunday Times * The Moro Affair is at the heart of Sciascia's public writings... a dazzling piece of invective... [ Moro] will be remembered largely as the subject of this great master's greatest polemic -- Philip Hensher * Spectator * The Moro Affair, the political crime, will not be forgotten; also, thanks to Sciascia, the tragic events have gained universal dimension. He has convinced us that real tragedies still happen, and that there is always further criticism of our understanding and practice of power * Irish Times * I don't see how anyone interested in the Moro case, in Italian politics or, more generally, in the relation of morality to State action, can fail to find it required and challenging reading * Scotsman * A chilling, lucid and caustic account of the unaccountable * Birmingham Post *
