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A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
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A journalist's account of the murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homeland. An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization, inequality, and a virtual absence of civic spirit. In this unpromising soil, a fearless journalist took root. Daphne Caruana Galizia fashioned herself into the country's lonely voice of conscience, her muckraking and editorializing sending shock waves that threatened to topple those in power and made her at once the island's best-known figure and its most reviled. In 2017, a campaign of intimidation against her culminated in a car bombing that took her life. Daphne was also the mother to three sons, who with their father have carried on the quest for justice and transparency after her death. Narrated by the youngest of them, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia.
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"Overall, this sad story offers encouragement, peppered with caution, to those spotlighting corruption, with a rallying call to find the courage to speak out against wrongdoing."
"Despite those struggles, their love for this amazing woman shines through ..."
"Galizia's argument in a nutshell: 'Malta's post-independence constitution had effectively renamed colonial governors as prime ministers.' His mother would agree, however, which is perhaps the point."
"The result is an instant classic of political true crime that will make readers' blood boil."
"Paul Caruana Galizia is a superb storyteller."
"The picture offered in these pages is not pretty, laden as it is with pervasive corruption and lurking menace, all the more startling because it involves a European Union member ..."
"A Death in Malta is an indictment of our global financial system – and of the institutions that supposedly exist to protect us from its worst effects."
"Galizia combines memoir, true crime, and history as he details Malta's complicated past for a riveting and unnerving story that remains fully unresolved."
"A memorable book of a courageous crusade for justice."
"His fine, natural, relaxed style shows Daphne as a living woman – delightful, quirky, far from perfect, increasingly affected by the things she wrote about and the danger she faced, and utterly magnificent ..."
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