In the years after WWII, Michael Corleone is sent back to Sicily to bring home the legendary bandit Salvatore Giuliano — a Robin Hood figure to the peasantry, hunted by the state and used as a pawn by the Mafia's Don Croce, whose fate turns out to be already sealed before Michael arrives.
Books mentioned in The Sicilian (2)
The Song of Roland: “"One of them was the Song of Roland, and he had read it to them." — Hector Adonis reading real books to Guiliano and his men.”
The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo: “As a natural courtesy, I gave him a copy of The Fortunate Pilgrim.”