"Но моя усталость - отчаяние загнанной мыши, ...
Mario Puzo's novel published in 1990. "The Fourth K was a commercial failure but it was my most ambitious book." - Mario Puzo.
It is a novel by Italian-American author Mario Puzo. Published in 1984. It is based on Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather. It is regarded as The Godfather's literary sequel.
A novel that only Mario Puzo could have written. A novel powerful, knowing, and bold enough to encompass America's golden triangle of corruption -- New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas. It is a novel that plunges you into the electric excitement of luxurious gambling casinos -- the heady arena for high ...
Mario Puzo has here created an extraordinary novel; it pulsates with dramatic and evil incident, brute rage, and the naked terror of an infamous underworld. Puzo takes us inside the violence-infested society of the Mafia and its gang wars. He shows us its trials by gunfire and torture and the ...
Chronicling the life of Italian immigrants in Depression-era New York, The Fortunate Pilgrim was published to rave reviews in 1965: The New York Times called it "a classic," and last year New York magazine said it "could have put Puzo on track to be the Italian Malamud or Henry Roth." The Fortunate ...
Walter Mosca, hardened by the brutality and desecration of three long years of way, returns to the USA a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows 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, ...
Omerta is an Italian mafia's code of honor that include most important definition - code of silence. According to this code it is categorically prohibited to cooperate with state authorities or reliance on its services, even when one has been victim of a crime. Within Mafia culture, breaking omertà ...
The typical clan consists of boss, consigliere, underboss, caporegime and solders. The actual structure of any given clan can vary.