His 1944 novel "A Bell For Adano" is set in allied-occupied Sicily
[DOC] [TLE] World War II Novels - Novi Public Library [PAR] During his exposure to combat, George "Heck" Tilson, an eighteen-year-old Iowa 
farm ... journalist in Paris who grew up in France, tells the story of the occupation 
of ... troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian 
Mafia.