BLOOD WASHES BLOOD

Author: Frank Viviano
Publisher: Arrow
Publication Date: 2002-08-01
Features: More than a century ago, Frank Viviano's namesake was murdered at a lonely crossroads in Sicily. He had been a revolutionary and a thief, a Robin-Hood bandit who travelled by night robbing the robes of a friar. Sicilians called him 'the Monk.' Shortly before his death in 1993, Viviano's grandfather whispered the name of the murderer—and nothing more. The whispers sent the author to the fishing village of Terrasini, west of Palermo, in search of the Monk and his killer; in pursuit of a mystery that left his namesake dead on a country lane, drove his family to America and set in motion an eighty-year conspiracy of silence