“One of the 10 best books of the year… A Grandiose tale of treachery and violence”. – People
“An offer of evil and romance that cannot be refused. Mario Puzo Remains one of America’s best popular storytellers”. – Time
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“One of the 10 best books of the year… A Grandiose tale of treachery and violence”. – People
“An offer of evil and romance that cannot be refused. Mario Puzo Remains one of America’s best popular storytellers”. – Time
“An epic novel about and fortune in contemporary America…Puzo is a gifted writer…a lusty chronicler of our times whose writing style bulldozes its way through pretense and hypocrisy.”
“One of the 10 best books of the year… A Grandiose tale of treachery and violence”. – People
“An offer of evil and romance that cannot be refused. Mario Puzo Remains one of America’s best popular storytellers”. – Time
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The evening’s host is billionaire Edmond Kirsch, a futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial global figure.
This book traces the Mafia’s beginnings from an underground patriotic society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sisily, through the group of Italian immigrants – the Black Hand – Who savagely tore control of New York’s waterfronts away from Irish racketeers, to the Mob which went on to run organized crime throughout Italy and America. Drawing on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, William Balsamo – great-nephew of the first godfather – and George Carpozi Jr. trace the Black Hand’s coalescence into an organization whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic and into a presidential administration. And they go behind the headlines to reveal with chilling clarity the true extent of the Mafia’s influence today.
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