The Last Don by Mario Puzo
A masterful saga of the last great American Mafia family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas, from the author of The GodfatherThe Last Don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins. The Last Don is a mesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds of the mob, the movie industry, and the casinos where beautiful actresses and ruthless hitmen are ruled by lust and violence, where sleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk on power, where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, and where one man controls them all. Praise for The Last Don Puzo is in top form. . . . Head-long entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayal, assassinations, Richter-scale romance, and, of course, family values.--Time The most entertaining read since The Godfather.--The New York Times Book Review Skillfully crafted . . . It gives us Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the mob in one sweet dish.--Los Angeles Times Book Review Puzo returns after a quarter century to the terrain of his greatest success, The Godfather, to tell a second masterful tale of Mafia life.--Variety A compelling tale peopled by memorable characters . . . Puzo is a master storyteller with an uncanny facility for details that force the reader to keep the pages turning.--USA Today
Mario Puzo was born in New York and attended the New School for Social Research and Columbia University after serving in the military during WWII. His critically regarded novels The Dark Arena and The Lucky Pilgrim came before his best-selling novel The Godfather. Fools Die was published of 1978, followed by The Sicilian, The Fourth K, and The Last Don, the second book in his Mafia trilogy. Mario Puzo also penned a number of screenplays, including those for Earthquake, Superman, and all three Godfather films, for which he won two Academy Awards. He died in July 1999, at the age of 78, at his home on Long Island, New York, just after finishing the manuscript for Omerta.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679401438 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679401431 |
| Title | The Last Don |
| Author | Mario Puzo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House (NY) |
| Year published | 1996-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 482 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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