Mario Puzo returns to the Corleone world by way of Sicily, where Michael Corleone is given the job of bringing the bandit Salvatore Giuliano safely to America.
The novel works as history as much as crime fiction, setting post-war poverty, landowners, the Church and the mafia against a figure the island treated as a folk hero. Puzo keeps the political background in view while the plot moves, and the book stands on its own for readers who have never opened The Godfather.
Core elements:
• Set in Sicily in the years after the Second World War
• A bandit-hero figure at the centre of the story
• Ties to the Corleone family without requiring prior reading
• Detail on Sicilian landholding, politics and custom
Recommended for crime fiction readers and anyone drawn to historical novels about organised power, available from Boipoka.
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