The Hour of the Predator
Book of the Week: The Hour of the Predator by Giuliano da Empoli
Reviewed by our friend and avid reader Pia
“Guiliano da Empoli is a guy well versed in the world of politics (among other things, he was senior advisor to Italian prime minister Renzi), and has written what is likely this year’s most elegant book on our political times.
’The Hour of the Predator’ is a quick read, and is - as the title indicates - a series of short, yet exceedingly well observed, vignettes of some of the power players who shape our world, leading to the book’s devastating conclusion: the wolf to which the title refers is really the resurrection of the political morals of the Borgias. Yay, us.”
‘Happy reading’ doesn’t really apply here, but as we find ourselves in the midst of a series of consequential elections around the world, perhaps we can say ‘Important reading’.