Naples ’44

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Café Roma (Benevento)

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In Naples ’44

The Benevento café outside which a man is shot dead with a lupara one morning; by the time Lewis arrives the body has vanished and no passer-by or waiter will admit to seeing anything — his sharpest picture of the town’s wall of fear.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. September 11 1944
    A reported gangland-style shooting near a café vanishes without a trace or a single willing witness, revealing the town's undercurrent of fear and silence.

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