Ermanno Rea worked as a journalist for the communist newspaper, L''unit 1, after the World War II. Since then he has published L''ultima lezione 6 an inquiry into the unresolved disappearance of the great economist Federico Caff 9, a book that was later made into a film 6 and La dismissione, an investigation of the shutdown of the manufacturing industry in Naples. He lives in Naples, Italy. Thomas Simpson lives in Chicago, Illinois.