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Omerta
Author: Mario Puzo

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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780345432407 - ISBN-10: 0345432401
Publication Date: 5/1/2001
Pages: 384


Other Versions of this Book: Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Hardcover, Hardcover

Book Description:
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 how he had carefully trained him . . . and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.

Now his time has arrived. The Don is dead, his murder one bloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit--from the deadly compromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frightening plans of a South American mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after all these years, this moment is in his blood. . . .

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Matthew O. (FreakZilla) reviewed 7/1/2005...
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This is a great book if you are a fan of The Godfather or The Last Don. It is along the same line as those books, but not a copy of them. Exciting, quick read. Highly recommemded!!


Mario Puzo's last book before he died. Don Raymonde Aprile adopts a mysterious child in Sicily...raises him to learn the banking business, to run a macaroni business, to ride horses..and live the life of a gentleman..but secretly,the Don has trained him to be his family's protector..and when the Don is assassinated; the young Astorre Viola knows the time has come to put his training into effect. against drug lords and even the FBI who has had a hand in the Don's murder.


Men will like this book. It is about the Mafia!


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