Chapter 52
The last thread
(Third person)
Aurelio De Nicola took the stone stairs that led to the upstairs part of the prosecutor's office mentally fuming, the smoke almost coming out of his ears in little whiffs. He didn’t remember many days when he had been as angry as he was now.
How could they have acquitted him? What the hell was that old fart Pisani thinking?
He kept thinking over and over again about all the stages in the trial to look for the weak link in the chain. To understand where he’d made the mistake that had cost him the victory. It was probably those damn emails of that pansy De Sanctis.
His anger increased at every step. He reached the top of the flight of stairs and turned into a very long corridor of almost claustrophobic size.
Like any other Public Prosecutor De
