The Little Wagons : The Traumatic Birth of Sicily's Cosa Nostra - Crozier Green

The Little Wagons

The Traumatic Birth of Sicily's Cosa Nostra

By: Crozier Green

Paperback | 1 December 2016

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The Little Wagons is a fictional novel that captures the turmoil of late nineteenth-century Sicily, when the reverse alchemy of greed and violence forever changed the emerging Cosa Nostra from benevolent gold into corrupted base-metal. The horrors of slavery and oppression forged revolutions and rebels in equal measure, and within this cornucopia of nepotism and brutality, hostility and passion are pitted against endemic hegemony.

With protagonists as fiery as Mount Etna itself, and equally unpredictable, The Little Wagons shows how poverty and despair become the omnipotent catalysts of vengeful change.

About the Author

Crozier Green is a happily married, 60-year-old empty-nester. He enjoys good food, good company and fine wine; preferably synchronised, then some mountain biking to work the calories off - if the weather is good!
Industry Reviews
Here at last is a captivating novel set in the formative days of the Mafia, in nineteenth-century Sicily. Crozier Green zooms in on this volatile period of the historically embattled island: at the dawn of a unified Italy that was anything but. Green's Sicily is a brutal landscape inhabited by characters of outsized passions, despite the double-bind of poverty and exploitation, in the manner of Emile Zola. Its an alluring backdrop for the story's love triangle, one rife with betrayals and complicated by the strictures of brotherhood. The Little Wagons plays with the old legends of Mediterranean Secret Societies: exotic tales shrouded in decorum and notions of honour that mask the eternal struggle for power. Yet its rich narrative details, from the hell of working the sulphur mines to the trauma of surviving Palermo's prison fortress can only come from an author's deep research. The reader is richer for Green's nimble fusion of fact and fiction. -- Carl Russo, author, The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide

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