English language
Published Nov. 13, 2008 by Soho Press.
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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.
James R. Benn is the author of Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery, selected by Book Sense as one of the top five mysteries of 2006 and nominated for a Dilys Award. The First Wave was a Book Sense Notable title. Benn is a librarian and lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut.
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