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it's christmas eve nineteen eighty nine somewhere outside the village of Carreri in Calabria.

A sleepy place of cobbled stone streets and stone houses, home to 2,000 people, and wedged between the Ionian Sea and the mountains of the rugged Aspermonte region.

Everybody's gearing up for the year's biggest day.

Well, almost everybody.

Because there are other far less festive plans playing out in Karei this evening.

And they're about to go off like a bomb.

Chesare Casela is the teenage son of a local car dealer,

and he's been held in captivity by gangsters for almost two years.

It's a case that has gripped Italy,

thanks largely to Cheserese's own mother, Angiolina,

who has gone on a media rampage,

denouncing Calabria's third mob,

the Andranga, which claims to have taken her son.

Newspapers call Angelina Mama Corragio, or Mother Courage.

But Chesere is still in chains. Probably in one of the Andrangetta's many bunkers or hideouts bored into the peaks of the Aspermonte.

Out of sight and well out of reach of Italy's cops.

Until now.

A first ransom had already been paid without Cheseret's freedom, and subsequent trickery has convinced a local magistrate named Vincenzo Kallia that the kidnappers simply will never play ball.

Kalia has seen his people suffer at the hands of this mob, a collection of secretive, ultra-violent clans for over two decades.

The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is ending, and new political forces are taken over Europe.

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