El precio del honor

Andrea Camilleri is twenty years old and must take an exam in Palermo. A family friend who also has to go to the capital agrees to take him in his truck when, suddenly, three armed men stop the vehicle: "What do you fancy today?" the driver asks them. "Two boxes of mullet, two of sole and two of octopus." It is the price they will pay to have a safe trip, a curious "gentleman's deal" and, also, Camilleri's first experience with the mafia. The price of honor is a work about the Sicilians and their unorthodox methods of exchange: between judges and thieves, politicians and gangsters, sinners and priests. And it is that, only in Sicily, you can even negotiate with God. With the irresistible wit that made him famous in everyone, Andrea Camilleri gives us some intelligent and hilarious pages that help us understand customs that have forged the character of an entire country.