Title: Blood alone
Subtitle: a Billy Boyle World War II mystery
Description: Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he must also thwart a murderous band of counterfeiters of Army scrip led by Vito Genovese.

James R. Benn is the author of *Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery*, selected by Book Sense as one of the top five mysteries of 2006 and nominated for a Dilys Award. The First Wave was a Book Sense Notable title. Benn is a librarian and lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut.
Subjects: Fiction, Amnesiacs, Campaigns, Americans, World War, 1939-1945, Mafia, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Sicily (italy), fiction, Crime, fiction, Billy Boyle (Fictitious character), Large type books
Places: Italy, Sicily
People: Lucky Luciano
Time periods: Allied occupation, 1943-1947