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Omerta
Mario Puzo
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Description for Omerta
Paperback. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change, but now at the century's end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honor may be silent - but money talks. New York - a mob boss is assassinated. His nephew Astorre Viola and the head of the city's FBI both launch investigations into the murder. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 318.
Omertà, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omertà carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change, but now at the century's end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honour may be silent - but money talks.
New York - a mob boss is assassinated. His nephew Astorre Viola and the head of the city's FBI both launch investigations into the murder. But this time silence spreads like a contagion: the silence of rival gangs, the silence of crooked ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099533252
SKU
V9780099533252
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99-12
About Mario Puzo
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.
Reviews for Omerta
Hugely effective fiction ... [Puzo] keeps his pack with readers to unfailingly deliver the goods
Literary Review
Here is all the classic material of Mafia mythology ... spins a spell all its own
The Times
Puzo's genius was to create a world so thick with personality and acknowledged rules of behaviour, along with its crime and ... Read more
Literary Review
Here is all the classic material of Mafia mythology ... spins a spell all its own
The Times
Puzo's genius was to create a world so thick with personality and acknowledged rules of behaviour, along with its crime and ... Read more