Roma giungla

Sandro Sparta, a police officer attached to the Central Directorate of Anti-Drug Services, who suffers from heart problems, is charged with carrying o out a preliminary investigation in Civitavecchia, Rome’s seaport, where hewas police chief twenty years earlier. The port is being infiltrated by the ‘Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, who are seeking to give it a key role in the international drug trafficking network. Cocaine produced in Columbia, in the territories controlled by the drug cartel Clan del Golfo, is sent to Nigeria and travels on from there to Italy.Meanwhile Henry Boezie, a Nigerian sculptor living in Civitavecchiawho is in fact head of the Roman division of the Black Axe criminal confraternity, schemes to collude with Filippo u Bellu, an old member of the ‘Ndrangheta who’s looking for revenge. Under the radar, these two weave an extremely ambitious and risky plan to gain supremacy in the Roman drugs and prostitution rackets. A follower of esoteric African cults and voodoo, Boezie lives with Alaba, a disturbing ex-prostitute, card-reader and diviner, believing himself to be protected by her magic.Murders, extortion and betrayal dog Sandro Sparta as he discovers that he’s got himself involved in a game that’s much bigger, more complex and dangerous than he’d ever imagined.A game that’s only just started.