The Sicilian Specialist [antikvár]

THE SICILIAN SPECIÁLIST In 1943, Norman Lewis, then in British Intelligence, was seconded to the American 5th Army and spent two years in Naples, watching the Allies kowtow to Yito Genovese and Lucky Luciano, erstwhile Mafia overlords in the U.S., and now the real power behind the throne in Occupied Italy. Here he picked up his first-hand knowledge of Mafia customs as weil as of the sinister double-dealings of the CIA. The author writes: "Many of the incidents in this növel are based on the ferocious models of real life. For example, the massacre of Sicilian peasants by bandits supplied with Allied weapons really took place. There are even historical killers whose names have not been changed. Bonachea Leon is a speciálist assassin kept in a Central American jail, from which he is released periodically to commit political assassination . .