Book description
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 - a world of
greed, lust, violence and betrayal, where the power of corruption and
the corruption of power are nowhere better explored.
Fame and wealth, skulduggery and cheating and pimping, love affairs
and carnal arrangements, once scene following another pell-mell, all
written with unflagging vitality ... bawdy, comic, highly coloured,
hypnotic. It would be a very cool reader indeed who did not devour the
whole mixture greedily New York Times Corruptly compulsive Daily Express
Unforgettable ... Will rivet your attention Cosmopolitan Mario Puzo
was born in New York. He is the author of the bestselling novel
The Godfather
and many other acclaimed novels. Puzo also wrote many screenplays,
including those for the three Godfather movies, for which he won two
academy awards. He died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age
of seventy-eight.
