Mark Sullivan’s Beneath a Scarlet Sky is a coming-of-age historical novel that follows Pino Lella, a 17-year-old Milanese boy, as he navigates the dangers of Nazi-occupied Italy during the height of the Nazi occupation of Italy during World War II.
Based on Lello’s recollections more than 50 years later, the novel follows his efforts to help Jews flee the Nazis, and his spy activities after his parents force him to join the German Army.
Historical Fiction, 509 pages in Paperback.
Mark T. Sullivan (b. 1958) is an author of thrillers. Born in a Boston suburb, he joined the Peace Corp after college, traveling to West Africa to live with a tribe of Saharan nomads. Upon returning to the United States, he took a job at Reuters, beginning a decade-long career in journalism that would eventually lead to a job as an investigative reporter for the San Diego Tribune.
Sullivan spent the winter of 1990 living with a group of skiers in Utah and Wyoming and used the experience as the foundation for his first novel, The Fall Line (1994). In 1995 he published Hard News, a thriller based on his work as a reporter, and he released The Purification Ceremony (1997), which won the WH Smith Award for Best New Talent. Sullivan published Ghost Dance, (1999), Labyrinth, (2002), Triple Cross, (2009), Private Games (2012), which he co-authored with James Patterson, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, (2017), and The Last Green Valley, (2021),
Sullivan lives with his family in Montana, where he skis, hunts, and practices martial arts.