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This trade paperback edition of a classic novel includes a fresh Introduction and Afterword, enhancing its appeal for both new readers and longtime fans. Praised for its engaging narrative, the story delves into themes of power, family, and crime, offering a captivating exploration of its characters and their turbulent lives. The added content provides additional insights, making it a compelling read for those interested in a rich, immersive experience.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series designed for learners of English as a foreign language. With adapted text, new illustrations, and language exercises, the print edition provides access to additional online materials. The series features popular classics, contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing learners to bestselling authors and engaging content. It includes eight levels aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Each Reader contains exercises to practice grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills, along with questions that test comprehension and enhance vocabulary. A Level 7 Reader, this title is classified as B2 on the CEFR scale. The text includes complex sentences and introduces advanced grammatical structures such as future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, and modals for deduction. The story follows Michael Corleone, who initially seeks a normal life away from his family's criminal enterprises and wishes to marry his American girlfriend, Kay. However, after his family is attacked, he realizes he must seek revenge. The print edition grants access to online resources, including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans, and answer keys.

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise . . . and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. His youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation; and his adopted son, Tom Hagen, is a college student; but he worries most about Sonny, his oldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny - seventeen years old, impatient, and reckless - wants something else: to follow in his father's footsteps, and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, THE FAMILY CORLEONE carries on the legacy of The Godfather for a new generation.

In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, recovered from the appalling injuries he suffered and determined to revenge the death of his wife at the hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of his tormentors. Dark, violent and graphic, this is an addictive thriller about how far one man will go to exact his own justice.

It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Outside the fortified building owned by Michael Corleone, newly undisputed Boss of Bosses, a parade of people wait to ask the great man for favours. Only one thing remains to be done.

This novel takes place in the years 1955-1965, but it is built upon the story of that 'year of delicate political manoeuvring' - and how, in winning the battle that year, Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 2004.

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The story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias.

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 ...

Don Domenico has a surprise in store for his fmaily. He wants them to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. Nothing unusual about that. Except that the Clericuzio are the last of the great Mafia families. And there are seeds of evil amoung the Clericuzio, seeds sown by the Don himself. And killing is still what they do best.

In de haveloze Italiaanse wijk van New York vecht een moeder verbeten voor een betere toekomst van haar vele kinderen.

A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebears-good looks, privilege, wealth-and is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon, however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabused of his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has been before. When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot, Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles' assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series of violent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world and those closest to him look on with both awe and horror.

After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work--a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . . The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption--and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Guiliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano. From the Paperback edition. Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0345441702

Within the interconnecting worlds of bigtime gambling, publishing and the film industry, the power of corruption and the corruption of power are nowhere better explored. From New York to Las Vegas, Merlyn and his brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organised crimeare one and the same.

Mörderisches Spielfieber in Las Vegas! Gangster, Callgirls und Zuhälter, Sänger, Tänzer und Magier – sie alle bevölkern Las Vegas, die schillernde Stadt in der Wüste von Nevada. Was sie verbindet, ist der Traum vom schnellen, leicht erworbenen Reichtum und Glück. Las Vegas, das ist die amerikanische Metropole des Glücksspiels – gegründet und erbaut von Beauftragten der Mafia und des New Yorker Gangstersyndikats. Glückliche und erfolglose Spieler kommen aus allen Ländern der Erde hier zusammen. Mario Puzo, Autor des Weltbestsellers "Der Pate", entwirft in diesem atemlos fesselnden Roman ein ebenso spannendes wie funkelndes Kaleidoskop dieser bizarren Stadt, ihrer fiebrigen Atmosphäre und der bunt zusammengewürfelten Menschen, die sie bevölkern.

Now back in print, a superb early novel by the legendary author of "The Godfather" and "The Last Don". "An evocative portrait lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage".--"New York Times Book Review". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena –an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved–and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision–between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . .

Don Corleone is the Godfather, head of one of the richest families in New York and a gangster. His favourite son Michael is a lawyer who wants to lead a quiet life, but when Don Corleone is nearly killed by a rival Mafia family, Michael is soon drawn into the family business.