A captivating crime novel touching on the highly relevant political issue of sea rescue and migration to the EU
His second case leads Sicilian Commissario Morello back to his native island: He’s out and about in Venice together with his colleague Anna Klotze when they happen to see a young man, a refugee from Nigeria, jump in the Grand Canal. Anna manages to save him. He has been driven to this desperate act by the fate of his girlfriend, who has been forced into prostitution by the Nigerian Mafia in Sicily.
Although he knows he isn’t safe from the Mafia in Sicily, having crossed paths with it repeatedly, Morello has to go back there in order to save the young woman. Despite his concerns, Anna Klotze joins him. For security reasons, they set off in a sailboat, taking in shipwrecked refugees along the way. When they dock in Marina di Palma in Sicily, instead of finding the ambulance they had requested for the exhausted refugees, Morello is arrested – and forced to recognize just how incredibly cynical and corrupt the government authorities have become.
