Omerta

In a darkly comic novel by the author of The Godfather, Don Raymonde Aprile, now retired, and FBI agent Kurt Cilke, engage in one last war with the distinctions between "good guys" and "bad guys" getting lost in the shuffle. Simultaneous.

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Five CDs, Approx. 5 hours

The final chapter in Mario Puzo's landmark Mafia trilogy about power and morality in America.

Mario Puzo spent the last three years of his life writing Omerta, the final installment in his legendary Mafia saga.  In The Godfather, he introduced us to the Corleones.  In The Last Don, he told the wicked tale of the Clericuzios.  In Omerta, Mario Puzo chronicles the affairs of the Apriles, a family on the brink of legitimacy in a world of criminals.

Don Raymonde Aprile is an old man, wily enough to retire gracefully from organized crime after a lifetime of ruthless conquest.  His three children have grown up to become respectable members of the establishment.  To protect them from harm, and to keep an eye on his group of international banks, Don Aprile has adopted a "nephew" from Sicily, Astorre Viola, w