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Blood alone : a Billy Boyle World War II mystery /

Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he mu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benn, James R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Soho, [2008]
Subjects:
Americans > Italy > Sicily > Fiction.
Amnesiacs > Fiction.
Mafia > Italy > Sicily > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Italy > Fiction.
Italy > History > Allied occupation, 1943-1947 > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he must also thwart a murderous band of counterfeiters of Army scrip led by Vito Genovese.
Physical Description:313 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781569475164 (hardcover)
1569475164 (hardcover)