Omerta
Price 4.89 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780099296805
Author
Mario Puzo
Producer
Arrow Books
Pages
432
Year of production
2001
Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia"s sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a century of change, but now at the century"s end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honour may be silent - but money talks. New York - a mob boss is assassinated and no one will talk. His nephew and the head of the city"s FBI both launch investigations into the murder. But silence spreads like a contagion: the silence of rival gangs, the silence of crooked bankers; even the silence of the courts. However, the world of the Mafia is one without integrity, and riven with greed. And when money starts to talk...