The Godfather is the Mafia leader Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. Set in Long Island, Hollywood and Sicily this is a story of a feudal society within society which does not hesitate to consolidate its power.

Puzo's first novel for years is about the head of the last great Mafia family, and his attempt to leave the world of crime and consolidate the family's power in Las Vegas and Hollywood.

Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honour for centuries. In New York a mob boss is assassinated and no one will talk. His nephew and the head of the FBI both launch investigations."

In 'The Family', Puzo transports his readers back to 15th-century Rome and reveals the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican. The intermingled stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behaviour, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage.

Tells a story of big-time gamblers in a feverish world where law and organised crime are one and the same.

Hardened by the brutality and desceration of three long years of war, Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows he must run back to the land of the enemy, to find the woman who accepts the rage and cruelty of the world around her.

From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa - wife, widow and mother of two families - steer them through the Depression and the early years of war as they adapt to life in a strange land. She cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values - nor the violence and bloodshed which surely follow...

Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.