Alexander Kidelius

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Mambo siciliano

The year is 1922 and young Dani Creppuscio, the son of a respected Mafioso, finds himself in the midst of a bloody interfamily conflict in his native Sicily during the prelude to a time of great upheaval of time-honoured ways as the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini begins its crack-down of the Sicilian Mafia. A river whose flow consists of the blood of his friend threatens to drag him down with it, but Dani grabs a paddle and attempts to navigate out of it and into the safe harbour of a foreign land. But the harbour thousands of miles away, the goal of his pilgrimage, is all but safe. MAMBO SICILIANO is a thrilling story of times since long gone by, and of a way of life foreign to most. It is the story of friendship, of family, and of loyalty - and of when all those are strained and put to the test. It is the story of an unglamorous and gritty life - of death, of blood, of horror, of witnessing the blood of one’s friends flow; it is the story of the Sicilian and the Italian- American Mafia. It is the story of Dani Creppuscio.