For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished - but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. 'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. _ A tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career _ 'We are a family,' Alexander told his children. The result was 1969’s The Godfather by Mario Puzo, a bestselling tale of life in an Italian-American Mafia family that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an Academy Award-winning movie trilogy from director Francis Ford Coppola. It is set in the same universe as Puzos most famous work, The Godfather (1969), and contains characters from The Godfather.

Published in 1984 by Random House Publishing Group ( ISBN 4-7 ), it is based on the life of Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano.

The Borgias face immense opposition from all quarters of Italy, but their deadliest foes may be far closer to home. By the late 1960s, Puzo was a father of five in deep financial debt, so he purposely tried to write a hit novel. The Sicilian is a novel by American author Mario Puzo. Scheming and plotting for their own ends are his children: Giovanni, the much-favoured golden boy his younger brother Cesare, jealous and vicious and Lucrezia, cunning, calculating and passionate. Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy - but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death. But where there is gold - and power - there are those who are willing to do anything to get their hands on them. The Renaissance is in full swing, heralding a new golden age for Europe. _ From the legendary author of THE GODFATHER comes a novel of the original Italian crime family Fifteenth-century Italy.

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