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Godfather
Ballantine
August 2005
560 pages ISBN: 0345478983 EAN: 9780345478986 Paperback (reprint)
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THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIME Thirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo's great American tale, The
Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly
changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist
Mark Winegardner continues the story--the years not covered
in Puzo's bestselling book or in Francis Ford Coppola's
classic films. It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the
war among New York's crime families. Now he wants to
consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his
family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must
confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a
former boxer who worked his way through law school as a
Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and
cunning as Michael. Their personal cold war will run from
1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of
America's most powerful criminals and their loved ones,
including Tom Hagen, the Corleone Family's lawyer and consigliere, who
embarks on a political career in Nevada while trying to
protect his brother; Francesca Corleone, daughter of Michael's late brother
Sonny, who is suddenly learning her family's true history
and faces a difficult choice; Don Louie Russo, head of the Chicago mob, who plays dumb but
has wily ambitions for muscling in on the Corleones'
territory; Peter Clemenza, the stalwart Corleone underboss, who knows
more Family secrets than almost anyone; Ambassador M. Corbett Shea, a former Prohibition-era
bootlegger and business ally of the Corleones', who wants to
get his son elected to the presidency--and needs some help
from his old friends; Johnny Fontane, the world's greatest saloon singer, who
ascends to new heights as a recording artist, cozying up to
Washington's power elite and maintaining a precarious
relationship with notorious underworld figures; Kay Adams Corleone, who finally discovers the truth about
her husband, Michael--and must decide what it means for their
marriage and their children and Fredo Corleone, whose death has never been fully explained
until now, and whose betrayal of the Family was part of a
larger and more sinister chain of events. Sweeping from New York and Washington to Las Vegas and Cuba,
The Godfather Returns is the spellbinding story of America's
criminal underworld at mid-century and its intersection with
the political, legal, and entertainment empires. Mark
Winegardner brings an original voice and vision to Mario
Puzo's mythic characters while creating several equally
unforgettable characters of his own. The Godfather Returns
stands on its own as a triumph--in a tale about what we love,
yearn for, and sometimes have reason to fear . . . family.
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