Synopses & Reviews
The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young, charismatic president.
It's impossible to overstate the influence of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, which has become an essential part of our cultural lexicon. Puzo's novel about the secret world of organized crime became a megabestseller and an instant classic. The book inspired the Francis Ford Coppola films unprecedented successes in their own right and launched a national obsession with the Mafia that continues unabated today.
In The Godfather's Revenge again authorized by the Puzo Estate Mark Winegardner moves the Corleone family onto the biggest stage of all: the intersection of organized crime and national politics. A subordinate to Michael Corleone, New Orleans underboss Carlo Tramonti is publicly humiliated when the U.S. Attorney General President Danny Shea's brother has him arrested and deported to Colombia. Tramonti eventually returns, hell-bent on settling scores, and triggers a series of events destined to change the course of American history. Corleone, though haunted by the death of his brother Fredo, knows that this is no time for weakness and so, with fearless consigliere Tom Hagen leading the way, a new path for the future is forged.
As the dramatic twists of The Godfather's Revenge take the reader from Las Vegas to Miami to New Orleans, from the power alleys of Washington, D.C., to the remote jungles of Colombia, the puppet master behind the curtain remains Michael Corleone, the tortured prodigal son who is determined to redefine his family's legacy and make his father the original Godfather proud.
Review
"[A] worthy addition to the chronicle of la famigilia Corleone....Winegardner's deft plot-spinning is rivaled only by his sure grasp of Goodfella mise-en-scene....Bloody and bombastic a top-notch addition to the saga." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Review
"Mark Winegardner is...pretty great, and The Godfather's Revenge...is everything it should be: nuanced, chilling, and threaded with intrigue....But this book's very existence feels terribly wrong. Why can't dead authors stay dead? (Grade: B)" Entertainment Weekly
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"Winegardner is like an expert restorer of a painting by an Old Master....[T]hrough his fine style, craft and attention to character, [he] sheds new light and adds greater depth to the familiar. What's more, Winegardner is a master plotter." Chicago Sun-Times
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"Revenge's overdependence on mental ruminations, health issues and the characters' personal anxieties and dour natures makes it an offer you might want to refuse." USA Today
Synopsis
A third and final installment in the best-selling epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family finds New Orleans under-boss Carlo Tramonti deported to Colombia, an event for which he turns dangerously vengeful and triggers a series of events that changes the course of American history. 400,000 first printing.
Synopsis
The third and final installment in Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young, charismatic president.
About the Author
Mark Winegardner is a celebrated novelist who was handpicked by Mario Puzo's estate to write The Godfather Returns, an instant New York Times bestseller. Winegardner's previous books, including the novels Crooked River Burning and The Veracruz Blues, have been chosen as among the best of the year by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, the New York Public Library, and USA Today. He is a professor (and former director) at the creative writing program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.