The Sacco Gang, Andrea Camilleri
The Sacco Gang, Andrea Camilleri
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The Sacco Gang

Author: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 3 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2018

Synopsis

Based on a true story, a “wild west” tale of two brothers who battle both the state and a Mafia empire in 1920s Italy.Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the state. Their lives change radically one morning when their father, Luigi Sacco, receives an anonymous letter from the local Mafia demanding protection money and is the victim of a robbery attempt. Luigi tells the police of the extortion letters he received, but the police don’t know what to do: no one in the village has ever dared denounce the Mafia before. From that moment on, the Sacco brothers must defend themselves—from the Mafia and the forces of order, from their collaborators, traitors, and from the village’s leaders—as they are assailed by murder attempts, false accusations, and false testimony.Through the tale of the Sacco brothers and what happens to the town of Raffadali, The Sacco Gang makes clear that not only does the Mafia kill people but it can also condition and irreparably devastate people’s lives.

About Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) wrote the internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano mysteries as well as historical novels. His books have been made into television shows in Italy and translated into thirty-two languages. His thirteenth Montalbano novel, The Potter’s Field, won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

About Grover Gardner

Alexander Adams is a pseudonym for narrator Grover Gardner. His most high-profile book to date is the unabridged novelization of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, recorded in a joint effort by BOT and Random House under the Adams moniker. He lives in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dagio_maya

“Un western di cose nostre” Quale risultato si ottiene opponendosi alle richieste fatte dalla mafia? Nell'ordine, ad ogni rinuncia di collaborazione, si succedono: a) Minacce tramite lettere anonime b) Atti intimidatori (incendi di proprietà, rapimenti...) c) Attentati E se ancora v’incaponite (apperò......more

Goodreads review by Fabian

"The Sacco Gang" describes the "Western di cose nostre", or the literary equivalent of the spaghetti western. & what a cinematic treat this is! Written by your favorite English/History teacher professor, it is wisely anticlimactic in parts that makes it like reading a historical non-fiction. (It is.)......more

Goodreads review by Laura

“Se sì, che bellissima storia.”......more

Goodreads review by Steve

This was a solid audiobook, ably read by Grover Gardner. The book tells the true story of an industrious, hardworking and respected Sicilian family in the 1920’s who refuse extortion attempts by the local Mafia. The Mafia strike back with violence, and rather than give in to their threats, violence a......more

Quotes

“If history is the story of winners and the powerful, it’s not only the fault of historians; the fact is that the traces of the past with which they work—‘documents’—are left by those arranging for their own posterity…Camilleri rebels against this fiction, creating another, more refined and luminous one.” La Repubblica (Rome)

“A vivid historical novel…A riveting story of how organized crime, political corruption, and judicial duplicity can oppress freedom.” Publishers Weekly

“Offering a straightforward and unromantic account of escalating violence in the Sicilian countryside, the author depicts the unrelenting terror of shoot-outs, ambushes, and assaults. Verdict: Based on historical events, Camilleri’s latest is not light reading for the armchair traveler but instead a realistic representation of a region dominated by organized crime and a corrupt justice system in the first half of the twentieth century.” Library Journal

“An Italian family goes from poverty to prosperity and then to infamy in this brisk account of the persecution the Mafia brought to 1920s Italy, based on a true story…The injustice here has an immediacy; the tale itself feels part of legend.” Kirkus Reviews

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