The FugitiveThe Fugitive
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eBook, 2007
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Current format, eBook, 2007, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsMassimo Carlotto's odyssey began in 1976 when, as a member of a militant leftwing organization that had fallen awry of the ruling powers, he was arrested and falsely accused of murder. Unwilling to play the role of fall guy in a political power struggle, he chose to flee the country rather than wait for a verdict that the whole country knew was a foregone conclusion. He first went into hiding in the French underworld and then made his way to a Mexico embroiled in bloody class conflict. Betrayed by a Mexican lawyer, he returned to Italy in 1985 and spent six years in prison, during which time the "Carlotto case" became Italy's most famous legal fiasco.
Carlotto was finally freed with a presidential pardon in 1993. Subsequently, his case helped bring about significant changes to the Italian criminal code to ensure that similar judicial travesties would never happen again. The Fugitive is the first book Carlotto wrote as a free man. Virtually a handbook on how to live life on the run, The Fugitive is also a novel full of underworld characters and moments that Carlotto recounts in the prose that has become his trademark.
Tells the story of a man falsely accused of a crime in Italy who flees to the French underworld before traveling to a Mexico besieged by guerrilla warfare.
Carlotto was finally freed with a presidential pardon in 1993. Subsequently, his case helped bring about significant changes to the Italian criminal code to ensure that similar judicial travesties would never happen again. The Fugitive is the first book Carlotto wrote as a free man. Virtually a handbook on how to live life on the run, The Fugitive is also a novel full of underworld characters and moments that Carlotto recounts in the prose that has become his trademark.
Tells the story of a man falsely accused of a crime in Italy who flees to the French underworld before traveling to a Mexico besieged by guerrilla warfare.
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