Under a Scarlet Sky, by Mark Sullivan

In love and in war everything is allowed. And let's not say if both premises converge ...

Only such an approach and also taken from a true story could lead Mark T. Sullivan away from a common genre of mystery and suspense in which he had been moving with enough success to chain a solid career in the United States.

And perhaps Sullivan's literary career would have been exclusively confined to his country had it not been for Hollywood to notice his story about the real life of Pino Lella, a young Italian from 1943 who was forced to participate in World War II and which ended up being a perfect safe-conduct to save the lives of many persecuted Jews on both sides of the borders of Italy.

Casual heroes have that I don't know what any of us can become. And knowing about the good Lella confirms the increasingly remote impression that human beings can show off that supposed humanity that does good.

From a city like Milan where Pino led a life focused on his things as a boy, on the borders of a conflict that splashed here and there, the poor man is suddenly brutally stripped of everything by a bomb. His particular drama leads him to the circles of resistance with which he is involved to seek life opportunities for entire communities of Jews. Among all those people who move in the shadows of the world in the hope of doing better, is Anna. And of course, with emotions on the surface, Pino discovers in her that love in which to finish focusing a vital foundation that would otherwise succumb to the horrors of war.

Maybe love can't always do everything. But without a doubt, Pino's love for Anna gave him the necessary strength to overcome his hatred of destruction, in that balance defeated on the side of evil in which there is only faith in God or in love to hope to build a better future.

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Under a Scarlet Sky, by Mark Sullivan
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