Agostino Rossini, twenty-eight, is at the top of the business world and living to the fullest in 1929 New York City. Without warning, intermittent flashbacks of blood and death come into focus. When he puts the pieces together, he faces the realization of his mother's murder by his grandfather, which took place twenty-three years earlier. Within three months of his first painful memory, Rossini's boards a ship for Naples, Italy, to confront his Italian family and find the truth behind his nightmares.
Filled with murder, deceit and intrigue, Blood Feud will put Rossini through a challenge of survival against an assassin, leading up to a final realization that directs him to resolve the painful truth. The book epitomizes the Italian tradition of not only loyalty, kindness and love, but also the ruthless rage of vendetta.
The story pits Rossini, the illegitimate son, against his wealthy father and grandfatherwith ties to the mafia, Mussolini, the Vatican and the United States Government. Toss in a beautiful, but fatally-flawed American movie star, an Italian agent of the CID who believes in old-fashioned justice and The Leopard, Italy's most accomplished, most sinister and most feared assassin, who will stop at nothing to murder Rossini, who returns to Italy for revenge.