”Trust no one . . . not even your mother!” she whispers into Ray’s ear . . .
Protecting the American Dream is an adaptation of The Sicilian Conspiracy. It chronicles the rise and fall of several Sicilian families whose inborn tendency to self-destruct clashes with their desire to do good.
The novel reveals how far others have gone to protect The American Dream— Their jobs, their incomes, their homes and whatever else that dream represents for each of them.
In Protecting the American Dream deeply principled men with high emotions and even higher aspirations play complimentary and at times competing roles.
In Brief, a father is slain and his only son seeks revenge . . . A mother sends her son out into the world with one piece of advice: Trust no one . . . not even your mother . . . A man fatally shoots his brother and girlfriend for shaming him with their affair. . . A father spits on his dead son’s face and roars Bastard! before slamming the lid of his casket shut.
The central character, Don Saverio, has a cause: to reform the Mafia to its original ideology men of honor who speak the truth and to instill that ideology into American politics and big business to protect the American Dream for the entire world.
Unwittingly, his young appointee, Ray, comes to care about the cause. But when he follows orders to move to New York to take charge of the great plan for America and not inconsequentially agrees to keep a close eye on his boss' beautiful, talented daughter, Silvana he finds that furthering this ideology means coming face to face with the age-old temptations of greed, power, and corruption that have always threatened to sabotage the American Dream.
