Mark Sullivan. Under Scarlet Skies. A Novel

Pino Lella, a young Italian, like everyone his age, loves music, girls, and himself. And everything would proceed according to the normal laws of life if war hadn't engulfed the world. The house in Milan where Pino lives with his parents is reduced to rubble by bombing. The young man joins the underground. While helping Jewish families flee the swastika across the Alps, Pino meets Anna, his love. But war works in mysterious ways. To escape death, the young man joins the German army, and fate places him behind the wheel of the personal car of Hans Leyers, one of the most influential and mysterious military leaders of the Third Reich, a man patronized by German Chancellor Adolf Hitler himself. From then on, Pino lives between two poles: his love for Anna and his hatred of the soulless force known as fascism. Michael Sullivan's novel "Beneath the Scarlet Sky" has been at the top of Amazon's Top 100 for six months now, garnering twelve and a half thousand reviews. Eighty percent of readers who reviewed the novel gave it a perfect five-star rating—a unique achievement for a book. Pascal Pictures has acquired the film rights to the novel. The lead role will be played by Tom Holland, who rose to fame as Spider-Man in the acclaimed film.