β Scribed by Djelloul Marbrook
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Billy Salviati just wants to be a good soldier, to follow orders and live under the radar. It's all going well until he meets Hettie Warshaw one night on a dark street in Hell's Kitchen. Then his life unravels.
Saraceno is the story of a hit man whose good looks are equalled only by his magical gift for friendship. He survives the vicissitudes of good looks, but his gift for friendship puts him in the crosshairs of friends and enemies.
When Mafia don John Altobene dubs Billy Il Saraceno (sah-raCHAY-no), it's a compliment. He means Billy is shadowy, deadly and enigmatic. He also means Billy ts a man born outside looking in, a marked man, as well as, in Mafia parlance, a made man. Billy roams Manhattan's streets as the Arabs have roamed their deserts, unaccustomed to giving or getting quarter. He's invaluable, but misunderstood. His mother's Irish blood puts him outside La Famiglia.
To the Sicilians, who enjoyed a long period of prosperity and peace under Saracen rule before the Norman conquest, Billy's nickname has unique connotations. In their collective unconscious they do not remember the Saracens the way the rest of the West views them to this day: marauders, Hagar's children, their hand raised against everyone, and everyone's hand raised against them.
Billy's story, drawn from the author's own boyhood experience in Hell's Kitchen, is an allegory for our time: we don't really know anyone, we only think we do.
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