Commissario Antonio Morello, known as “the loose dog,” has arrested corrupt politicians in Sicily and is now on the mafia’s hit list. For his protection, he is transferred to Venice. While Morello, thanks to his beautiful neighbor Silvia, starts taking to the city he initially hated, the young leader of a local initiative against cruise ships is being murdered. The Commissario’s first Venetian case turns out to be a highly political one.
With Der freie Hund, Wolfgang Schorlau and Claudio Caiolo deliver the high-energy debut to a new crime series. Claudio Caiolo received his first pair of children’s shoes from the mafia – in exchange for his older brother’s vote. He is very familiar with the entanglement of politics and crime in his homeland. And, in Wolfgang Schorlau, the creator of the private investigator Georg Dengler, he has found the ideal partner for taking a fresh look at an old Italian disaster together.
