| US |
| Born
1929 - Died 1999 |
| | Mario
Puzo |
| | The
Dark Arena 1955 |
| Walter
Mosca, hardened by the brutality and desecration of three long years of war, returns
to the USA a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows that he must
run back to the land of the enemy, to find the woman who accepts the rage and
cruelty of the world around her. Back in Germany, where the bitter aftermath of
war is everywhere apparent, American cigarettes will buy almost anything. Against
this background the love affair between Mosca and his girlfriend Hella moves to
a savage climax as vivid and violent as any scene in The Godfather. |
| | The
Fortunate Pilgrim 1964 |
| 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 Depression and the early years
of the war. But she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values
- nor the violence and bloodshed which must surely follow... |
| | The
Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw 1966 |
| | The
Godfather 1969 |
| The
Godfather is the Mafia leader Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at
nothing to gain and hold power. Set in Long Island, Hollywood and Sicily, this
is a story of a feudal society within society which does not hesitate to consolidate
its power. |
| | Fools
Die 1978 |
| Played
out in the worlds of gambling, publishing and the film industry, Merlyn and his
brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America,
where law and organized crime are one and the same. Follow the action from New
York to Las Vegas. |
| | The
Sicilian 1984 |
| 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. |
| | The
Fourth K 1991 |
| The
President of the US, cousin of JFK, faces the greatest crisis of his career. His
only child has been seized by terrorists making impossible demands, while at the
same time, two scientists are holding the nation to ransom with a secretly planted
nuclear device. |
| | The
Last Don 1996 |
| This
novel tells the story of the last great Mafia family, and its head, Don Domenico,
describing his attempt to leave the world of crime and consolidate the family's
power in Las Vegas and Hollywood. |
| | Omerta
2000 |
| Omertà,
the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's code of
honour for centuries. Born in the beautiful Sicilian hills, Omertà carried
the Mafia through a century of change, but at the close of a tempestuous century
it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honour may be silent - but money talks.
In New York a mob boss is assassinated and no one will talk. His nephew and
the head of the city's FBI each launch investigations into the murder. But silence
spreads like a contagion: the silence of rival gangs, the silence of crooked bankers;
even the silence of the courts. However, the world of the Mafiosi is one without
integrity, and one riven with greed. And when money starts to talk... |
| | The
Family 2001 |
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| A
novel set in a fifteenth-century Italy populated by corrupt popes and despotic
families introduces the first of the mafia families--Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander
VI, and his children Jofre, Juan, Lucrezia, and Cesare. |
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