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Gabriele Olivari's Ashes of Cairo series is a high-octane espionage thriller, following MI6 agent Alexandra Silva as she extracts a Russian defector in Milan and hunts a mastermind (Orlov) who weaponizes crowd psychology to engineer deadly crushes for geopolitical gain. Culminating in a race to prevent a stadium disaster in Alexandria, Egypt, the novel blends pulse-pounding action with themes of trauma, intelligence ethics, and the dark science of human behavior. While fictional, it draws...

Gabriele Olivari's The Silence of San Vittore immerses psychologist Matteo Calvino in a tense evaluation at Milan's infamous San Vittore Prison, unraveling a cold-case murder tied to mafia confessions, media corruption, and the harsh 41-bis regime. For readers unfamiliar with Italian locales or the country's deep-seated history of organized crime and judicial struggles, the novel might feel like a shadowy foreign labyrinth. But Olivari masterfully weaves fiction with facts, drawing from real...