Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Outside the fortified building owned by Michael Corleone, newly undisputed Boss of Bosses, a parade of people -- among them former mob rivals and an emissary from the Mayor of New York -- wait to ask the great man for favours.

Only one thing remains to be done. Traitorous former Corleone capo Nick Geraci has powerful friends and far too much to say, and needs to be brought in. But then everything changes. As fireworks explode over First Avenue, news arrives that Jimmy Shea, President of the United States and an old friend of the Corleone's, has been assassinated…

Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge. The final piece of the puzzle. Arrow, ISBN: 0099499487 (September, 2007), 580 p., £6.99.

Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
The original 1969 bestseller that became a landmark event in American popular culture. An American crime boss pursuing the mantle of legitimacy... A former top man on the run... The ambitious brother of a galvanizing young President... A New Orleans capo out for revenge... An Irish consigliere plunged into mortal peril. Five lives on a collision course with tragedy that will make history and shock the world -- an unforgettable capstone to Mario Puzo's great American epic.

Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge. A new novel inspired by the Corleone Family characters created by Mario Puzo. Signet, ISBN: 0451222539 (June, 2007), 624 p., $9.99.

Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen - Vito Corleone's adopted son, and the glue that holds the family together - are closer than they've ever been. Outside the fortified building owned by Michael, newly undisputed Boss of Bosses, a parade of people wait to ask the great man for favours. Among the visitors are former mob rivals, an emissary from the Mayor of New York, even faces from the past like Jonny Fontane; all come to pay homage. The Mafia Don walks the streets of his New York, beloved and protected.

But one problem remains. Michael has sworn revenge upon the traitorous former Corleone capo, Nick Geraci. Up until now Geraci, who has powerful friends and far too much to say, has evaded him. And that night, as the fireworks begin to explode over First Avenue, comes the news that Jimmy Shea, President of the United States, has been assassinated. Was another mob family involved? Or did the Corleones have a hand in the killing of their old friend?

The Godfather's Revenge tells the riveting story of the final years of the Corleones, bringing Mario Puzo's great saga to a conclusion.

Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge. Heinemann, ISBN: 0434015601 (November, 2006), 487 p., £16.99.

Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
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.

Mark Winegardner: The Godfather's Revenge. A new novel based on the Corleone Family characters created by Mario Puzo. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399153845 (November, 2006), 487 p., $25.95.