Mario Puzo

"The Godfather Returns" by Mark Winegardner

For forty years have passed since the publication of "The Godfather" - the greatest novel by Mario Puzo. The phenomenal success of the book and the film is on it does not give calm successors and heirs of the writer. So they decide to announce a competition to write a continuing saga of the Corleone family. And one of the conditions of the contest was that continued to write to the author, who is in the same position as Puzo himself when he wrote his masterpiece. The choice fell on Mark Winegardner, by that time already written a couple of novels, which, although they were warmly received by critics, and even included in some lists of successful literary debut, the commercial had no success. After receiving a grant, Mark Winegardner enthusiastically set to work, and in 2004 wrote a sequel "The Godfather" - "The Godfather Returns," telling about the years not covered in Puzo's best-seller, and no less famous Francis Ford Coppola. In addition to the book introduces new characters, as well as more clearly written down some characters who did not receive adequate attention in previous works. 1955. Michael Corleone has just won a hard victory in a bloody gang war, five families of New York. Now he is trying to consolidate their power, to legalize the business and save the family. To do this he must defeat a worthy opponent - Nick Gerace, a former boxer and bouncer, and now - a qualified lawyer, is not inferior to him in cruelty and treachery …