Corleone

By F. Marion Crawford | Introduction by Stephen Schmalhofer Click here to view the Saracinesca Tetralogy in full. Hardcover edition available from Amazon.com. “In Sicily, everything is possible.” The final book of the Saracinesca tetralogy, Corleone draws together the Saracinesca and Corleone families. Business and romance quickly form the foundation of their relationship, but a sudden death and its devilish consequences threaten to destroy it. That threat reaches its terrifying culmination when the youngest Saracinesca son, a Catholic priest, faces a dilemma of being found guilty of murder unless he breaks the seal of the confessional. The contrast between the self-interest of Tebaldo Pagliuca and the silence of Father Ippolito clarifies the stakes of the conflict. As Stephen Schmalhofer proposes in his Introduction: “The leveling of all ideals to satisfy desires is the ground assault that clears the field for the dictatorship of relativism. Crawford asks his characters to choose the