The Godfather

'Here is all the classic material of Mafia mythology ... spins a spell all its own.' -- The Times
'The narrative bowls along ... to keep [listeners going] all the way to an explosive showdown.' -- The Daily Mail
'The Godfather, one of the most entertaining and absorbing popular novels of the postwar period ... Puzo's masterpiece.' -- The Observer
'Puzo's genius was to create a world so thick with personality and acknowledged rules of behaviour, along with its crime and violence, that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure.' -- The New York Post
'A splendid and distinguished blood saga of the Cosa Nostra, the American Mafia, and of the whirl created by five families of mafiosi at war in New York.' -- The Sunday Times