THROUGH BLOOD AND FOG

by Michael Sabella

Sicily, 1889. Three years after his father vanishes at sea, Luca Santoro learns the truth: the sea did not take him. Someone did. A hidden ledger links murder, stolen land, corrupt officials, and a secret brotherhood to money flowing across the Atlantic. When Luca is forced out of Sicily, he arrives in San Francisco with an iron key, a family debt, and one warning—trust no man who recognizes his father’s name too quickly. On a waterfront divided by Irish gangs, Chinese tongs, Sicilian networks, crooked policemen, and ambitious politicians, Luca begins as a fisherman and laborer. But survival teaches him to read more than tides. He learns to read men, money, and the ledgers that can destroy them. As the truth about his father moves closer, Luca must decide what matters more: revenge, family, or the power to build something of his own. THROUGH BLOOD AND FOG is a historical crime novel of immigration, loyalty, corruption, and the making of power in 1890s San Francisco. Read more