"We are a family. And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and
everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished--but
if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned."
The crowning achievement of a truly phenomenal career, Mario Puzo's final novel
is a remarkable epic of greed, treachery, sin, and power beyond mortal
imagination. It is a journey to a different time and place--when the Church held
the ultimate authority and ambition was cloaked in robes of the richest velvet.
But most of all, it is the spellbinding story of a father and