The family Corleone

By Edward Falco

Subjects: Italian americans, fiction, Organized crime, Mafia, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-05-27, Italian Americans, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Criminals, Crime, fiction, Corleone family (Fictitious characters), Fiction, Fiction, crime, Criminals, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: New York, 1933. The crime families have prospered in the Depression, but with the coming end of Prohibition a battle is looming... one which will determine which organizations will rise, and which will face a violent end. Vito Corleone pushes his oldest child, teenaged Sonny, to be a businessman. But Sonny-- impatient and reckless-- wants to become a part of the real family business.