Piernicola Silvis

Piernicola Silvis, born in Foggia in 1954, is a colonel of the Government Police Force. Now in the Marche, he lived and worked for years in the Veneto. His writing debut was in 2006 with the novel Un assassino qualunque (Franco Fedeli Award, translated in Germany and Spain), followed by L’ultimo indizio (2008), a fictionalized account of the operation that led to September 1992 capture of Giuseppe Madonia, number two man in the Cosa Nostra. In 2009 he wrote Il conto, which was included in the anthology Casi freddi, edited by Mauro Zola (Cairo Editore). www.piernicolasilvis.com