Omerta » (First Ballantine Books Mass Market Editi)

Lifelong New Yorker Mario Puzo drew upon figures in his Italian-American family to create the characters in his smash hit The Godfather in 1969; but he claimed never to have met a real-life mobster, and his detailed portrait of the Mafia world came entirely from diligent research.

THE FINAL CHAPTER IN MARIO PUZO'S LANDMARK MAFIA TRILOGY

Mario Puzo spent the last three years of his life writing Omerta, the concluding installment in his saga about power and morality in America. In The Godfather, he introduced us to the Corleones. In The Last Don, he told the wicked tale of the Clericuzios.

Barnes & Noble Guide to New Fiction

The final chapter in Mario Puzo's landmark Mafia trilogy is "a great read," and "impossible to put down!" A terrific plot and "likeable, though really bad guy" characters add up to "a definite recommendation."