Viviano

I got a question about Frank Viviano....I have a book of him called "Blood washes Blood" and the only thing I want to know is:

Is Frank Viviano a journalist who has roots in the Sicilian Mafia or was he a journalist who was member of the Sicilian Mafia? On the internet I can't find information clearing this for me.

I don't believe that Frank Viviano has had any first hand accounts in the mafia, altthough, as you know, his family definately did. Blood Washes Blood is a very good book, I am in the middle of reading it right now, but as far as I believe he was never in La Cosa Nostra.

Viviano is an American journalist (San Francisco Chronicle) who got interested in the Sicilian Mafia because his grandfather told him that his grandfather (Viviano's great-great grandfather) was a famous Mafioso. So, his book started as a kind of geneological effort.

I already suspected that...thx anyway