Go into a major Italian bookshop and chances are you will see a small grey paperback piled up in nearly every department—in history, humour, current affairs and, most prominently, by the front desk. "L'odore dei soldi" (The odour of money) by Elio Veltri, a surgeon-turned-politician who likes exposing corruption and crime, and Marco Travaglio, an investigative journalist with La Repubblica, is a re-examination of some of the key moments in Silvio Berlusconi's financial life. Published by the left-leaning Editori Riuniti, the book has proved so popular in the run-up to Italy's May 13th election that it is easily outselling every other book in Italy, both fiction and non-fiction (see overleaf for bestseller lists).
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