Valley of Dreams

About the Book

Is this really going to happen? Are the two siblings, the last seeds of a family going to make peace and help to make Noto a mafia-free zone? Was the man approaching Mariella indeed Sebastiano? Who else could it be? He had a sheet of paper in his hand and held it out.

Wild clatter of machine-guns tore the silence of the dawn to shreds. I saw the muzzle fire of the guns in the windows of the first floor of the Institute. The two figures standing just a metre or so apart dropped instantly, blood staining the white ground around them.

"No!" I shouted. I jumped up and wanted to run towards Mariella but the lieutenant grabbed my arms and held me. "There is nothing you can do," he said, hanging on to my arm. I was deaf to his words and continued to wrestle him to get away, to get to Mariella, to no avail. He pressed me to the ground until I gave up the fight.

About the Author

Tibor Timothy Vajda was born in Hungary. In 1956 he migrated to Australia where he now lives. He lectured in some twenty countries, including the U.S.A. and has published several short stories and three books, Hope Dies Last,Blood Red Moon, and Inspector Bourke in Sydney, Bangkok and Moscow. During his trips he studied all the locales he was writing about. He visited Italy, including Sicily, twenty times.