by Mario Puzo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548251578
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«Omerta» is the crime novel by Mario Puzo, published by Ullstein Tb in paperback (397 pages).
Astorre Viola, taken in by the last great don of New York, Raymonde Aprile, was secretly trained from childhood. When Aprile is murdered, Astorre claims his place in a conflict where the FBI, corrupt police, and a South American boss weave alliances and betrayals. The mafia code of silence known as omertà gives the novel its title.
The work was originally published in 2000; the 2001 edition is part of Mario Puzo's mafia saga.
For readers of crime thrillers and Italian-American mafia stories.
Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
