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A modern masterpiece, The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking 40 years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder, and family values is a true classic.

The sequel to Puzo's epic and brutal Mafia classic The Godfather. Once again Puzo brings the history of the Corleone family to life. Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.

The Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest - a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzios, and their powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. Domenico Clericuzio is a wise and ruthless man who, in his old age, is determined to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. But as he strives to establish his heirs in legitimate society, secrets from his family's past spark a vicious and bloody war between cousins.

When an important Mafia boss is assassinated, no one knows anything. Omerta, the Mafia code of silence, is at work. No information is to be found, not from corrupt banks, rival gangs, or even from the courts. However, the nephew of the dead man and the head of the FBI are determined to track down the murderers. So determined, they join forces to begin their own investigation. After all, in the Mafia world, everyone has a price.

Lucia Santa has traveled 3,000 miles of dark ocean, from the mountain farms of Italy to the streets of New York, hoping for a better life. Instead, she finds herself in Hell's Kitchen, in a bad marriage, raising six children on her own. As Lucia struggles to hold her family together, her daughter confronts the adult world of work and romance while her eldest son is drawn into the Mafia. Meanwhile, her youngest son aspires to American pursuits she cannot understand.

美国纽约五大黑势力集团之一的维托・考利昂一家采用多种极端手段，实现了在整个美国黑暗势力团体中的独尊地位……美國紐約五大黑勢力集團之一的維托・考利昂一家採用多種極端手段，實現了在整個美國黑暗勢力團體中的獨尊地位…… 

"Vis mig en spiller, så vil jeg vise jer en taber, og vis mig en helt, så vil jeg vise jer et lig". "Tåber dør" fortællingen om de miljøer hvor drømme og håb enten bærer en til stjernerne eller brister drastisk. Om gamblingens højborg Las Vegas, om Hollywoods brutale, men raffinerede filmmiljø og om New Yorks litterære jungle. Det er her tåberne lever og dør. På casinoet på Hotel Xanadu i Las Vegas mødes en gruppe mænd, som ikke tidligere kender hinanden.

Efterkrigstidens ruinbyer i det besatte Tyskland er hjemsted for en skyggeverden, hvor korruptionen og desperationen lever side om side, og den eneste gyldige valuta er amerikanske cigaretter. For dem kan du til gengæld købe hvad som helst. Amerikaneren Walter Mosca vender tilbage til dette Tyskland efter krigen, for at genfinde den kvinde han elskede, og opbygge et nyt liv.

"Tåber dør" er fortaellingen om de miljøer, hvor drømme og håb enten baerer en til stjernerne eller brister drastisk. Om gamblingens højborg Las Vegas, om Hollywoods brutale, men raffinerede filmmiljø og om New Yorks litteraere jungle. Det er her tåberne lever og dør. På casinoet på Hotel Xanadu i Las Vegas mødes en gruppe maend, som ikke tidligere kender hinanden. Den forfaldne gambler Cully, den intense og drengede Merlyn og den midaldrende Jordan.

New York, 1933. Die Aufhebung der Prohibition steht bevor und zwischen den Gangsterbossen der Stadt entflammt ein brutaler Verteilungskampf. Vito Corleone ist bereits stark, doch noch längst nicht der mächtige, alles beherrschende Pate. Mit allen Mitteln verteidigt er sich gegen die brutalen Angriffe seiner Konkurrenten. Während er versucht, seine Familie zu schützen, kommt sein ungestümer ältester Sohn hinter die wahren Machenschaften seines Vaters und drängt darauf, ins Familiengeschäft einzusteigen.