Sicilian Wars

After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work—a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . . The year is 1950. Michael...

The largest island of the Mediterranean has always been a complicated place with a fraught relationship to the Italian mainland. Separated by only the narrow Strait of Messina, Sicily feels like a different country in many ways, and the differences between Sicilians and Italians are much vaster than the tiny geographical separating them might intimate. For example, the linguistic differences between the two are substantial, as Sicilian is practically its own language, rather than just a dialect.

She wore her wedding ring as camouflage. He survived by staying dead. For three years, Maeve Serra has remained inside the Marino Syndicate’s world as the quiet Irish widow of a murdered operative. The ring on her finger grants her protection, access, and the one advantage no one sees coming. Invisibility. While the Syndicate treats her as a harmless fixture at its dinners and gatherings, Maeve studies freight records, tracks private meetings, and builds a case against the man she believes ordered her husband’s death. Then Dmitri Kovalenko walks back into the room. He was supposed to ...

July 1943. The Allies are storming Sicily, and Private Daniel Kennedy is about to discover that freedom can be more dangerous than prison. A year earlier, Kennedy was an ex-con with one impossible dream. To fly. The Army gives him wings, but not in the way he expected. Instead of a cockpit, he’s thrown into the 82nd Airborne and hurled into a bloody invasion. Landing on the wrong beach, Kennedy survives machine-gun fire, dive-bombers, German armor, but after the death of the man who led them, he leads a suicidal charge into a German machine-gun nest. His courage catches the attention of ...

They call Cade Parker a sniper. Ortega calls him something simpler: the man who fixes problems at long range. When Operation Husky throws their units into chaos, Cade and Ortega become the sharp edge. The pair that clears the angles so everyone else can move. But Sicily isn’t Tunisia. Sound lies between stone walls. Sightlines collapse into short windows. And a hostile marksman is cutting the invasion apart by killing leadership and communications at the worst possible moments.

They crossed the line. Now love is no longer the risk, survival is. What was once controlled becomes explosive as outside threats rise, old loyalties crack, and the bond between them is tested from every direction. The passion is deeper, the stakes are higher, and the cost of loving each other has never been more dangerous. He would burn the world down before he let her be taken from him. She refuses to be protected from the truth, even when the truth could destroy everything they have built. In this next chapter of The Sicilian Don, desire collides with power, family warfare, and the ...

Very few of the ancient empires and nations were able to challenge the Romans, who were famous for their military might. Even fewer were able to make them shiver just by mentioning their name. In fact, only one enemy of Rome managed to engrave such fear into their bones. That was Carthage, sometimes called the Carthaginian Empire. It was a formidable state that stretched across northern Africa, from Algeria and Tunisia to the shores of Morocco and southern Spain.

Italy, 1943. With war raging across the rugged cliffs and turquoise waters of his beloved Sicily, Savio’s pen scrawls desperately across the page. His letter must be sent in secret–or his life will be in terrible danger… England, present day. Paige is devastated when her reclusive but beloved Aunt Florence dies–the only family she’s ever known. Inheriting her crumbling cottage, Paige finds an unfinished note. ‘I am sorry, Paige. It’s time to tell you everything. It all began in Sicily…’

A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for the first time. Emerging from the dark streets and subterranean caves of Palermo, the Beati Paoli, masked and hooded, mete out their own form of justice to counter the...

In the year 1282, after their daring heroics liberating Sicily, Esmeray and Bastone find a haven on the island of Favignana. But the War of the Sicilian Vespers reignites, dragging them into their prior roles as spies. Finding strength in each other, they once more join the patriots to rid the Angevins from Sicily. They return to their sanctuary in Favignana, sharing the welcome challenge of raising their adventurous daughter, Aspasia. Esmeray and Bastone, however, long for the open sea, and she accepts command of a trading vessel, but questions if the sea is the best home for their ...

An immersive narrative investigation into the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981, and the international dispute over who was responsible for it. On May 13, 1981, a Turkish man named Mehmet Ali Agca shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in the heart of Vatican City. Agca...

The sequel to Puzo's epic and brutal Mafia classic The Godfather. Once again Puzo brings the history of the Corleone family to life. Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.

The Beati Paoli’s unrelenting campaign to restore justice is compromised by an act of betrayal and a plot that threatens its very existence. Set against the backdrop of the island’s increasing disillusionment with its new rulers from Savoy and a yearning for the return of the formerly...

Brought to you by Penguin. Corruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance; this is the story of one man who stood in opposition. In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The...