Claudio Michele Mancini Infamitą Ullstein Verlag, February 2006, 431 pp ISBN-13: 978-3-550-08637-3 Welcome a new incursion into the murderous world of the Mafia! Don Cesare Carluccio, head of the Sicilian clans, intends to marry the young widow, Maria-Lucia, alias Pupella, in three weeks' time in the cathedral in Palermo. To make this possible he seeks the support of his old school friend Bellini, now an influential cardinal. But the price Bellini asks for his favour is high. The Vatican, where he now works, has lost some very compromising documents detailing the paedophilic misdemeanours of certain men of the cloth, and Carluccio is the only person in a position to get them back. The scale of the intrigue grows by the minute as a rapidly escalating power struggle within the Sicilian clans darkens the horizon and the skeletons that emerge from Pupella's closet threaten to loosen Carluccio's grip. Interwoven with the hunt for some five million missing dollars, the action races from Sicily and the Vatican to Germany, the USA, Bolivia and Mexico, while an expectation grows that Carluccio's trusted bodyguard and aide - who is, unknowingly, his illegitimate son - will save the day and assume the old man's mantle. Mancini has taken to the Mafia-thriller genre like a duck to water. Stand back, Mario Puzo!