Mojca Širok is known primarily as an exceptional journalist, correspondent from Italy, and immediately after that as a publicist, writer. For many years, she has been reporting on Italian social and political conditions, the mafia, and the Vatican. The Contract is her first fiction book, and she is an excellent crime novel that received the Modra ptica award. The story of The Contract unfolds over three days. These three days are like the peak, the culmination of many years of events and investigations, of police digging into the dirty dealings of people who are and are not in power at the same time. Suddenly, several seemingly unrelated murders occur, which does not fool Emanuele, who has been working in the so-called anti-mafia, the criminal service in Rome, the center for the fight against the mafia and mafiosi, for many years. The Contract, which unfolds before us in a flash, is a crime novel that we would prefer to believe is a fictional novel imbued with too much imagination. And yet, given how well the author knows the Italian situation, we constantly wonder whether everything that happens in the Treaty is true and real. And it is likely that it is very true.