The Last Don - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Mario Puzo, Joe Mantegna 4 cassettes / 4 hours — Read by Joe Mantegna — The Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest, thrilling us with his greatest Mafia novel since The Godfather - a masterful saga of the last great American crime family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. — "THE MOST ENTERTAINING READ SINCE THE GODFATHER." — --The New York Times Book Review
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The Last Don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins.
"SKILLFULLY CRAFTED . . . IT GIVES US HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS, AND THE MOB IN ONE SWEET DISH."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Last Don is a mesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds of the mob, the movie industry, and the casinos - where beautiful actresses and ruthless hitmen are ruled by lust and violence, where sleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk on power, where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, and where one man controls them all. . . .
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"To the Clericuzio family, life is like a box of hand grenades.
Mario Puzo is back with a vengeance in his first Mafia novel since The Godfather, a thrilling saga of the last great American crime family and its reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas...
The Last Don proves once again that Mario Puzo knows where the bodies are buried."« less