The Supernotes Affair

When Agent Kasper, an Italian under-cover spy working for the CIA and Italian government, was kidnapped in Cambodia on the orders of the CIA, he was supposed to disappear forever. For Kasper had uncovered something terrible - secret pallets of fake dollar bills used by the CIA to finance illicit operations. For this reason, he had to die. But the corrupt ex-Khmer Rouge guards who were meant to execute him saw an opportunity for blackmailing his mother for money by keeping him alive, and threw him into a prison camp instead. Kasper spent an entire year enduring the most barbaric torture in the appalling squalor of several camps, his own government ignoring his mother's pleas for intervention. He eventually escaped.This is an unputdownable romp of a read - pacy, page-turning, very commercial - that has made headlines in Italy. It is a sensational story of a man's harrowing year in captivity, of secret government spy missions and international intrigue, but also of a betrayal on a global scale.