The never-known story of the invisibles, the agents of the DIA, an institution desired by Giovanni Falcone, and at the same time the novel of four investigators who have become like brothers and that of a father who tells his son about the intimate struggle of those who put themselves to the utmost in the service of the state.
In the streets of Palermo, in the summer of 1992, the echoes of the explosion on Via D'Amelio still echo, of the sirens running in vain from Capaci to the hospitals. It seems that evil has triumphed, but in response to this very harsh attack, the state is quietly fielding a special body, the brainchild of Giovanni Falcone himself: the DIA, Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate, which brings together the best men from all law enforcement agencies. These are men who, in order to go after those who killed Falcone and Borsellino, leave their families, live undercover in fourth-rate hotels, have rudimentary tools at their disposal but are animated by the highest feeling of a mission that unites them as brothers. In this novel, one of them finds the courage to recount the investigations, the hours of listening to intercepted voices, the adrenaline of the raids, the obsessions and emotions of those crucial days: he tells them to his son, who at that time was a child full of nostalgia for his father who was always far away. Back then, that child had been told that he was a special animal, endowed with the fierce eyes of a wolf but the faithful heart of a dog: today he explains to him how becoming invisible was the only way to protect him and his mother while working to catch Giovanni Falcone's killers. With precision and passion Diana Ligorio brings to life a novel that is both a thrilling investigative adventure and the poignant journey inside a relationship between a father and a son. And she illuminates the exploits of men destined to remain faceless to us but who were able to sacrifice everything to deliver us a more just world.