The Big Game

Set in Italy during the ’90’s, this novel revolves around the Mafia control of Italian economy through international insurance companies.

“The Big Game” is a term that refers to the areas of politics and high finance that the Mafia desperately attempts to infiltrate. Michele Taibi, a Sicilian financial expert, believes that Italians should tolerate Mafia-controlled Italian capitalism, while his enemy, Mion di Vallombrosa, disagrees. Amidst car chases, shoot-outs, murders, and passionate love scenes, an investigator is called in to solve the mysteries behind this network involving the Mafia, the State, and the Vatican. A breathtaking novel in which the reader is privy to private conversations between powerful Cardinals, entrepreneurs, and Mafia bosses in the intricate web that is The Big Game.