Thriller set on a private CARIBBEAN ISLAND
The Colletta Cassettes
Location(s): Liguria
Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Fiction, Romance
Era(s): 1978
It’s the 1978 World Cup.
16-year old Sebastian hopes to meet a girl on a family holiday in Italy; reporter Peter Kentish to interview Bravo, ex-CIA, on the CIA’s complicity with the Mafia.
Colletta is a beautiful medieval village. Rosetta works as a chambermaid there.
Chapters alternate between Sebastian’s courtship of Rosetta and Bravo’s interviews.
Mrs Kentish forbids Sebastian from seeing Rosetta. Sebastian resolves to disobey her. Strangers come to the village – one harasses Rosetta; the other interrogates Sebastian and spies on Bravo and Kentish. We learn of the bombing of Italian civilians by the Italian and American Right, justified by the West’s ‘fear of communism’.
The night of the final: Mrs Kentish mobilises the village to save her son from a knifing – mistakenly; it is someone else who is murdered.
The Kentishes leave under a cloud of shame, Sebastian with Rosetta’s address in his pocket.
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