John Hunt Publishing - Top Hat Books - announces the new title

The Little Wagons is a fictional novel that captures the turmoil of late nineteenth-century Sicily, when the reverse alchemy of greed and violence forever changed the emerging Cosa Nostra from benevolent gold into corrupted base-metal. The horrors of slavery and oppression forged revolutions and rebels in equal measure, and within this cornucopia of nepotism and brutality, hostility and passion are pitted against endemic hegemony. With protagonists as fiery as Mount Etna itself, and equally unpredictable, The Little Wagons shows how poverty and despair become the omnipotent catalysts of vengeful change.

Author Bio
Crozier Green is a happily married, 60-year-old empty-nester. He enjoys good food, good company and fine wine; preferably synchronised, then some mountain biking to work the calories off - if the weather is good! He lives in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Online: Facebook, Author Website, Twitter

Previous Titles
THE FRATELLANZA CONTRACT (Amazon Kindle ASIN: B0048ELLHA). GLADIO RESURRECTION (Amazon Kindle ASIN: B006GV8EG4).

Endorsements
...a captivating novel set in the formative days of the Mafia, in nineteenth-century Sicily... The reader is richer for Green’s nimble fusion of fact and fiction.
Carl Russo, author, The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide

Promotional Plans
Author website, social media. Book signings. Articles and reviews.

USP
Historical fiction that borrows from the rapid page-turning style of the thriller genre.

Competing Books
Elizabeth Street 9780547744940, by Laurie Fabiano
Mariner Books, 2011

Categories
FICTION (General)(FIC014000) -> Historical(FIC014000)
FICTION (General)(FIC051000) -> Cultural Heritage(FIC051000)
FICTION (General)(FIC031020) -> Thrillers (General)(FIC031020) -> Historical(FIC031020)

Publication Date
December 2016

Distributed to the trade by National Book Network in US; by Orca Marston in UK
Publisher contact: catherine@jhpbooks.net
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