Uniform Justice

Uniform Justice
by Donna Leon

Uniform Justice
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Author: Donna Leon
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-06
ISBN: 0142004227
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Book Review: A March Toward Justice?
Summary: 4 Stars

In "Uniform Justice" a seventeen-year-old cadet apparently commits suicide at an exclusive Venetian military academy. Donna Leon's incorruptible Commissario Brunetti, our favorite Venice sleuth, is called in. The boy's father and mother are dodgy and scared. Some of the cadets are uncooperative and arrogant. You get the feeling early on that some of the boy's academy mates are up to no good. Brunetti is again joined in the story by his loving wife Paola who displays her disdain for the military and insists the boy wasn't a suicide (as does the boy's mother). Brunetti has a son, Raffi, about the same age as the dead boy.
"Brunetti realized that not much he had seen could persuade him that the military, either Italian or foreign, was much different from the Mafia: dominated by men and unfriendly to women; incapable of honor or even simple honesty beyond its own ranks; dedicated to the acquisition of power; contemptuous of civil society; violent and cowardly at the same time. No, there was little to distinguish one organization from the other, save that some wore easily recognized uniforms while others leaned toward Armani and Brioni."
Leon, as usual, takes her time telling her story with long interviews that seem to go off on a tangent. Brunetti is a patient dogged investigator, and the reader should be patient too because it will pay off. The ending will surprise you.
Brunetti learns in this book, as he does in others in the series, justice doesn't often triumph, if by justice we mean bringing the perpetrators before the courts, getting a guilty verdict, and seeing them punished. The corrupt and evildoers often go free while thumbing their noses at their pursuers. Brunetti's professional life is often thankless and fruitless while his personal life is gratifying and deeply meaningful. Leon is not afraid to deal with the cruel ironies of life.
As usual Brunetti has to put up with his superior, the corruptible and unprincipled Patta, and his "headlong pursuit of power." Patta, as is often the situation, chastises Brunetti and tries to pull him off the case, but Brunetti outwits him. "The ethical Patta was an eel."
The omniscient, computer-savvy police secretary Signorina Elettra is always there with answers, and her many discoveries seem barely credible. The plot involving retired military officers gets Byzantine, but this is a satisfying investigative journey with many insights into the human condition.

Summary of Uniform Justice

For more than a decade Donna Leon has been a bestseller in Europe with a series of mysteries featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to solve a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue.

In Uniform Justice, a young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice?s elite military academy. Brunetti?s sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concernedwith protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than with finding the truth. The young man?s father is a doctor and former politician. He is a man of an impeccable integrity who inexplicably avoids talking to the police. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? Or has Brunetti uncovered a conspiracy far more sinister than that of a single death?

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