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Set amid the final stages of World War II in North Africa and Sicily, In the Wolf’s Mouth portrays the disjointed attempts of the Allies to force a Nazi withdrawal toward the Italian mainland. Two young soldiers—Will Walker, an English field security officer, and Ray Marfione, an Italian-American infantryman—navigate the battlefield's chaos while confronting the limits of military ambition. Parallel to the soldiers’ experiences, a young shepherd named Angilu and a local Mafioso, Ciro Albanese, reveal the deep roots of Sicilian organized crime. Their stories, interwoven into the novel’s opening and closing chapters, underscore how the Mafia persisted before, during, and after the war, turning the slaughter of combat into a temporary diversion from entrenched criminal power.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Adam Foulds
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