Mario Puzo Livres

Don Raymondo Aprile, important mafioso new-yorkais, a recueilli Astorre, le fils en bas âge d'un parrain sicilien décédé. Ses trois enfants ont fait de brillantes études mais ont toujours été tenus éloignés de ses activités. À l'inverse, Aprile a initié leur "cousin" Astorre à ses affaires et il l'a même envoyé faire un stage à la source, en Sicile. Retiré du circuit après s'être reconverti dans le secteur bancaire, Aprile est assassiné par des concurrents qui veulent utiliser ses établissements pour blanchir l'argent de la drogue. Le FBI et la police, compromis dans ce crime, ne bougent pas. Astorre, actionnaire majoritaire des banques de son père adoptif, doit tenir ses promesses et protéger la famille Aprile et ses biens contre des ennemis qu'il faut identifier. Et sa vengeance sera terrible !

Par l'auteur du ##Parrain##, une plongée dans la frénésie du jeu, du cinéma, du sexe et de l'argent. Ce roman, au vocabulaire cru et même vulgaire, a été diversement apprécié de la critique. Pour les uns, Puzo a écrit un livre prétentieux et d'une "pesante monotonie". Pour d'autres, cet auteur mérite son succès; il est drôle, féroce, talentueux et "sait user de formules percutantes".

Contemporary / British English Don Vito Corleone is the 'Godfather' of New York's richest Mafia family. His business is built on fear and murder. Vito's son Michael wants a quiet life away from the family business. But that's not easy, and slowly Michael becomes the most dangerous gangster of them all...

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For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. While his youngest children are in school, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny wants something else: to follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business.

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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.