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A gritty police procedural featuring the bureaucratic/political side of British policing.

I got as far as the beginning of chapter 24 (the chapters are short), and decided there are other books I'd like to read more than this one. Not for me right now.

@57%: cultural appropriation

@39%: "Why shouldn't they smile, Guido? Think about it. They're the richest people in the world. Everyone has to defer to them in politics, and they have convinced themselves, somehow, that everything they have ever done in their very brief history has been done for no purpose other than to further the general good of mankind. Why shouldn't they smile?"
Brunetti's wife Paola to him in reference to Americans.

An Italian view into an American army base in Italy circa 1993: interesting perspective.

@13%:

"...he (Brunetti) had often come up against this national sense of moral superiority, this belief so common among Americans that it had somehow been given to them to serve as a glistening moral light in a world dark with error."

Written in 1993, but still true in 2024.

Mrs. Catchpool

Almost finished. Pulled myself out of the quicksand.

I'm bogged down, but hoping things will pick up.