A Sunny Place for Shady People - How Malta Became One of the Most Curious and Corrupt Places in the World

A personal and critical examination of how a powerful cabal on the Mediterranean island nation of Malta planned an assassination

List of contents

Contents
Prologue

1. Island Life

First Promise of the South

Cat Ladies and Shrugging Men

Melita’s Inferno

The Feast of the Exploding Village

Gentleman Pirates
 

2. Strange Crimes

Hell on Wheels

Dr. Dalli Speaks the Past

Cracks Appear

Trash Can at World’s End

The Island Is Dead, It Lives on Its Memories
 

3. Daphne

Madonna! What Happened?

Parties in Separate Rooms

It Was a Blind and Broken Time

Books Just Furnish a Room

The Year of the Oligarchs
 

4. Point of No Return

Amoral Familism

Point of No Return

It All Falls Down

Truth Comes Out

Bomb-Making Brothers
 

5. The Wages of Sin

Everyone Was on the Take

The Public Inquiry

The Aftermath
 

Epilogue

Cast of Characters

Chronology

Further Reading

About the author

Ryan Murdock is the author of Vagabond Dreams: Road Wisdom from Central America and editor-at-large (Europe) for Outpost, Canada’s national travel magazine. He shares his love of travel literature through the Personal Landscapes podcast and writes regularly for The Shift, an independent Maltese news portal. He lives in Berlin.

Summary

A personal and critical examination of how a powerful cabal on the Mediterranean island nation of Malta planned an assassination

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Murdock
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2024
• EAN: 9781595342942
• ISBN: 978-1-59534-294-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Illustrations: Black and White photographs, Karten
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State