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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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"A memorable book of a courageous crusade for justice."
"But in the real world the story is not over."
"His mother emerges as no saint either."
"And it is in Daphne's role as mother (as well as wife and friend) where this book really sings."
"The result is an instant classic of political true crime that will make readers' blood boil."
"Galizia combines memoir, true crime, and history as he details Malta's complicated past for a riveting and unnerving story that remains fully unresolved."
"It's also a klaxon for how deep corruption can run when not kept in check."
"Like her, he didn't start out as a journalist, but, also like her and his brother Matthew, he became a highly effective reporter."
"This book may be an eye opener for those who know little about the country of Malta."
"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."
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