The Salamander

The light in Italy is very clear, allowing one to read what is written diagonally on palimpsests. Who can have any sense of permanence when they go to work every day treading on dead emperors?
With such concepts, the great writer Morris West delves into the contemporary Italian scene to present a plot extremely rich in facts and people, centered around a conspiracy to restore a fascist regime in the peninsula's recently acquired democracy.
The objective part would appeal to any novelist due to its dynamism, the qualities of suspense and mystery that permeate successive moments of the story, and its intrinsic interest as something almost witnessed and events entirely situated within the realm of possibility.