Five Best: Historical Thrillers

1. “Time itself is the protagonist,” the director Martin Scorsese said of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s “The Leopard,” perhaps the most virtuosic historical novel ever written. Set in Sicily, the book begins in 1860 as Giuseppe Garibaldi’s Redshirts prepare to overthrow the decaying Bourbon…

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