The Prince: A Novel
By Vito Bruschini.
Description
A web of love, betrayal, and murder is at the heart of this riveting story of the Mafia’s beginnings.In this remarkable novel based on a true story, author Vito Bruschini brilliantly evokes the charismatic figure of Prince Ferdinando Licata, a wealthy Sicilian landowner who uses his personal power and charm to placate Sicilian peasants and fight off Mussolini’s fascists. As tensions rise in Italy during the 1930s, with increasingly violent consequences, Licata attracts many friends and far more enemies. Eventually implicated in a grisly murder, the prince flees to America, where...
ISBN(s)
1451687192, 9781451687194
