Il Mito da Rapire: Enzo Ferrari e l’ombra dei sequestri

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They wanted to kidnap Enzo Ferrari. No, this isn’t the title of a movie. This is a true story.

It happened fifty years ago. Two bandits were stopped on Corso Canalgrande in Modena just as they were about to commit the kidnapping of the century. The police foiled the kidnapping while the Drake was shaving in his local shop. Subsequent investigations revealed the involvement of the Marsigliesi clan, which was spreading terror across Italy during those months. From that day on, one of the hardest periods for Ferrari began, within a spiral of events that would shape the final years of his life.

This true-to-life novel reconstructs a largely unknown story. Enzo Ferrari, the most Italian Italian there could be at that and other times in our history, is not just a failed hostage. The Drake, in this book and even before that in real life during that period, becomes the symbol of a way of life and of being protected that was the norm for many wealthy people. Daily existence with a gun in your pocket, an equally armed driver, and a bodyguard constantly chasing you with a machine gun between the seats of the company car was unfortunately not the exception.

A true nightmare, that of the kidnappings, which will cause the Maranello legend to fall into depression and will haunt him even after he has left his earthly life.