Gudfadern är tidernas främsta maffiaskildring. Familjen Corleone bygger på ett manus Mario Puzo skrev, omarbetat till bok av Ed Falco.
New York, 1933. Staden och nationen är mitt inne i den stora depressionen. De stora maffiafamiljernas affärer i New York har blomstrat under denna ti[...]
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Don Vito Corleone is the âGodfatherâ of New Yorkâs richest Mafia family. His business is built on fear and murder. Vitoâs son Michael wants a quiet life away from the family business. But thatâs not easy, and slowly Michael becomes t[...]
A novel of blood and vengeance from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Godfather."
Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him.
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"We are a family. And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished--but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned."The crowning achievement of a truly phenomenal career, Mario Puzo's final novel is [...]
Sequel to "The Godfather", this describes the ending of Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily, his search for Salvatore Giuliano and his troubles, as he confronts brutal and unfamiliar treacheries in the deceitful society within which he moves.[...]
From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, the immigrant families struggle with an adopted life - none more so than the Angeluzzi-Corbos. At their head stands Lucia Santa, wife, widow and mother of two families. It is her formidable will that steers them through the Depress[...]
Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. A modern masterpiece, "The Godfather" is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal [...]
In a corrupt world where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, one man has power over them all. "The Last Don" is Mario Puzo at his finest - a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzios, and their powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vega[...]
Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honor for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change, but now at the century's end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honor may be silent - but money t[...]
'We are a family,' Alexander told his children. 'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished - but if we fal[...]
This title comes from the international bestseller of "The Godfather". A story of big-time gamblers in a feverish world where law and organised crime are one and the same...From New York to Las Vegas, Merlyn and his brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America -[...]
This is a classic tale of the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of immigrants living in New York City. From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa - wife, widow and mother of two families - must steer them through the Depression and the early y[...]
Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.[...]
"PUZO IS IN TOP FORM."*TimeThe Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest, thrilling us with his greatest Mafia novel since The Godfather*a masterful saga of the last great American crime family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas."THE MOST ENTERTAINING READ SINCE THE GODFATHER."*The New Y[...]
To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew." To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected[...]
Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena?an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .
After coming ho[...]
After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his worka lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . .
The year is 1950[...]
"A classic . . . the novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage."--"The New York Times Book Review."[...]
When tragic events--the Pope's asassination, his own daughter's abduction, a bomb threat in New York City, and a Middle East terrorist plot--threaten to destroy his administration, President Francis Kennedy must exploit his power to save it. Reprint.[...]
A modern masterpiece, The Godfather has sold millions of copies, inspired three of the finest films in recent times, and spawned a new genre in fiction. Now this landmark work has been abridged for the first time, under special arrangement with Mario Puzo. The Godfather is the epic story of organize[...]
New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.
For Vito [...]
FOOLS DIE is a novel that only Mario Puzo could have written. Encompassing America's golden triangle of corruption - New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas. It plunges you into the electric excitement of luxurious gambling casinos - the heady arena for high rollers and big-time hustlers, scheming manipulat[...]
When Mario Puzo's blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America's national culture, as well as a trilogy of landma[...]
More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that was passed on from father to son. With its themes of the[...]