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The Family Corleone,' by Ed Falco, tells the story of Vito Corleone's bloody rise to power, in a prequel to 'The Godfather.'. The Family Corleone Author Ed Falco Country United States Language English Genre Crime Publisher Grand Central Publishing Publication Date May 8, Luca is one of the major players in The Family Corleone, the new Godfather prequel Ed Falco assembled from material left behind by Puzo.

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• The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.For Vito Corl.
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Reception for the novel was mixed to positive, [3] [4] with George De Stefano in New York Journal of Books arguing that 'Ed Falco deftly pulls off a feat of literary necromancybringing back to life one of the most iconic figures in American popular culture: I mean, really, this got so tiresome. I know the way I see it is likely different than how it really was, but it's a nice picture.

And that is why this dialog is not credible: Personally, I found Luca Brasi's story more interesting than much of the rest of the book.

Almost from the beginning, I regretted starting it. For many, this is unacceptable. Want to Read Currently Reading Read.

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Most of the gore discribed poorly was unneccessary. Characters, details, dialog all seems stiff and contrived, almost to the point of boring. I'd love to know just how much of Puzo's un-produced screenplay makes up this book because from start to finish, the story didn't sit right with me at all. A ni sama akcija nije puno bolja. He knew Pentangeli and Tits were traitors but couldn't tell Tessio was going to double cross him?

To ask other readers questions about The Family Corleoneplease sign up. It's the age old issue of answering questions no one asked. Lists with This Book. The description of Sal Tessio could easily be a description of Abe Vigoda. It's famiyl wild ride with a strong climax.

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These two men showed up during construction and said they were going to inspect, free, the furnace installation. Archived from the original on 5 February I am writing this report for Ms. Luca Brasi makes the story interesting because he is so psychopathic! He doesn't or can't believe this.

Aug 30, Grace rated it did not like it. Return to Book Page.

There is nothing new here. Former mob guys like Bill Dwyer went into legitimate businesses. It's a prequel to The Godfather and sets it up wonderfully. The main characters fwmily this novel is Vito Corleone and his sons Sonny and Tom. A handful of nice, satisfying moments, but all are completely derivative of the films, prior novels–to the point where he's describing scenes from the films, shot for shot.

It is the prequel to Puzo's The Godfather. Changes came to the way they were going to do business and the five Mafia families that controlled New York came to grips with how they would do business in the future. Sonny is explained in detail but, like many people, I don't care.

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This would have been fair fan fiction at best and the themes are copied directly from the works of Puzo and Coppola galco show no creativity by the author. Well, it should faclo the movie which I saw recently is so much like the book that there are no surprises. This book is great and I like it ev it's a great read in a great era about a powerful family.

Vito is atop a Corleone mountain and he doesn't get hit? Even if it romanticizes violence, it shows some interesting relationships.

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The novel is a Crime book and takes place in New York in during the Great Depression and the coming end of the prohibition. Even more damaging is the time period in question. Not so in this book. But the stuff that happens. You have to be so amazingly diligent with your research when doing this and in this the author failed.

Books by Edward Falco. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. Oct 23, Alex Flores Rodriguez rated it liked it. Towards the end the prose paced a bit, not in a good way. He has also penned nine plays in addition to poems, essays and book reviews.

Want to Read saving…. By midway, though, it degenerates into almost all dialogue. I'm not talking about nit picky things that some will pick up on that I'm sure I missed because I never lived in New York a few reviewers have mentioned streets that didn't exist at that time period, for example. Apparently Mario Puzo wrote this as a screenplay, which Falco then turned into this novel. Or does he come clean about his criminal ways to his father, join 'the family' and marry the nice Italian girl who is in love with him?

There is no build-up of a mythic character like Vito Corleone, as there was in The Godfather. This is an excellent adult book from start to finish and seems to kindle once again how the five families in New York evolved into the Mafia.

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For my father and his family, his six brothers and two sisters, the Falcos of Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, New York, and for my mother and her family, the Catapanos and Espositos, from the same neighborhood—all of whom, the children of Italian immigrants, made good and decent lives for themselves and their families and their children and their children's children, among whom are doctors, lawyers, teachers, athletes, artists, and just about everything else. And for our neighborhood's family doctor in the forties and fifties, Pat Franzese, who came to our houses when we were sick and took care of us, often for free or for whatever little might be offered. With love and every good wish and great respect.

FALL 1933

G
iuseppe Mariposa waited at the window with his hands on his hips and his eyes on the Empire State Building. To see the top of the building, the needlelike antenna piercing a pale blue sky, he leaned into the window frame and pressed his face against the glass. He had watched the building go up from the ground, and he liked to tell the boys how he'd been one of the last men to have dinner at the old Waldorf-Astoria, that magnificent hotel that once stood where the world's tallest building now loomed. He stepped back from the window and brushed dust from his suit jacket.

Below him, on the street, a big man in work clothes sat atop a junk cart traveling lazily toward the corner. He carried a black derby riding on his knee as he jangled a set of worn leather reins over the flank of a swayback horse. Giuseppe watched the wagon roll by. When it turned the corner, he took his hat from the window ledge, held it to his heart, and looked at his reflection in a pane of glass. His hair was white now, but still thick and full, and he brushed it back with the palm of his hand. He adjusted the knot and straightened his tie where it had bunched up slightly as it disappeared into his vest. In a shadowy corner of the empty apartment behind him, Jake LaConti tried to speak, but all Giuseppe heard
was a guttural mumbling. When he turned around, Tomasino came through the apartment door and lumbered into the room carrying a brown paper bag. His hair was unkempt as always, though Giuseppe had told him a hundred times to keep it combed—and he needed a shave, as always. Everything about Tomasino was messy. Giuseppe fixed him with a look of contempt that Tomasino, as usual, didn't notice. His tie was loose, his shirt collar unbuttoned, and there was blood on his wrinkled jacket. Tufts of curly black hair stuck out from his open collar.

'He say anything?' Tomasino pulled a bottle of scotch out of the paper bag, unscrewed the cap, and took a swig.

Giuseppe looked at his wristwatch. It was eight thirty in the morning. 'Does he look like he can say anything, Tommy?' Jake's face was battered. His jaw dangled toward his chest.

Tomasino said, 'I didn't mean to break his jaw.'

'Give him a drink,' Giuseppe said. 'See if that helps.'

Jake was sprawled out with his torso propped up against the wall and his legs twisted under him. Tommy had pulled him out of his hotel room at six in the morning, and he still had on the black-and-white-striped silk pajamas he had worn to bed the night before, only now the top two buttons had been ripped away to reveal the muscular chest of a man in his thirties, about half Giuseppe's age. As Tommy knelt to Jake and lifted him slightly, positioning his head so that he could pour scotch down his throat, Giuseppe watched with interest and waited to see if the liquor would help. He had sent Tommy down to the car for the scotch after Jake had passed out. The kid coughed, sending a spattering of blood down his chest. He squinted through swollen eyes and said something that would have been impossible to make out had he not been saying the same three words over and over throughout the beating. 'He's my father,' he said, though it came out as
'E mah fad'
.

'Yeah, we know.' Tommy looked to Giuseppe. 'You got to give it to him,' he said. 'The kid's loyal.'

Giuseppe knelt beside Tomasino. 'Jake,' he said. 'Giacomo. I'll find him anyway.' He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and
used it to keep his hands from getting bloody as he turned the kid's face to look at him. 'Your old man,' he said, 'Rosario's day has come. There's nothing you can do. Rosario, his day is over. You understand me, Jake?'

'
Sì
,' Giacomo said, the single syllable coming out clearly.

'Good,' Giuseppe said. 'Where is he? Where's the son of a bitch hiding?'

Giacomo tried to move his right arm, which was broken, and groaned at the pain.

Tommy yelled, 'Tell us where he is, Jake! What the hell's wrong with you!'

Giacomo tried to open his eyes, as if straining to see who was yelling at him. ' 'E mah fad',' he said.

'
Che cazzo!
' Giuseppe threw up his hands. He watched Jake and listened to his strained breathing. The shouts of children playing came up loud from the street and then faded. He looked to Tomasino before he exited the apartment. In the hall, he waited at the door until he heard the muffled report of a silencer, a sound like a hammer striking wood. When Tommy joined him, Giuseppe said, 'Are you sure you finished him?' He put on his hat and fixed it the way he liked, with the brim down.

'What do you think, Joe?' Tommy asked. 'I don't know what I'm doing?' When Giuseppe didn't answer, he rolled his eyes. 'The top of his head's gone. His brains are all over the floor.'

At the stairwell, atop the single flight of steps down to the street, Giuseppe stopped and said, 'He wouldn't betray his father. You gotta respect him for that.'

'He was tough,' Tommy said. 'I still think you should've let me work on his teeth. I'm telling you, ain't nobody won't talk after a little of that.'

Giuseppe shrugged, admitting Tommy might have been right. 'There's still the other son,' he said. 'We making any progress on that?'

'Not yet,' Tommy said. 'Could be he's hiding out with Rosario.'

Giuseppe considered Rosario's other son for a heartbeat before his
thoughts shifted back to Jake LaConti and how the kid couldn't be beaten into betraying his father. 'You know what?' he said to Tomasino. 'Call the mother and tell her where to find him.' He paused, thinking, and added, 'They'll get a good undertaker, they'll fix him up nice, they can have a big funeral.'

Tommy said, 'I don't know about fixing him up, Joe.'

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'What's the name of the undertaker did such a good job on O'Banion?' Giuseppe asked.

'Yeah, I know the guy you mean.'

'Get him,' Giuseppe said, and he tapped Tommy on the chest. 'I'll take care of it myself, out of my own pocket. The family don't have to know. Tell him to offer them his services for free, he's a friend of Jake's, and so on. We can do that, right?'

'Sure,' Tommy said. 'That's good of you, Joe.' He patted Giuseppe's arm.

'All right,' Giuseppe said. 'So that's that,' and he started down the stairs, taking the steps two at a time, like a kid.

S
onny settled into the front seat of a truck and tilted the brim of his fedora down. It wasn't his truck, but there was no one around to ask questions. At two in the morning this stretch of Eleventh Avenue was quiet except for an occasional drunk stumbling along the wide sidewalk. There'd be a beat cop along at some point, but Sonny figured he'd slink down in the seat, and even if the cop noticed him, which was unlikely, he'd peg him for some mug sleeping off a drunk on a Saturday night—which wouldn't be all that far from the truth since he'd been drinking hard. But he wasn't drunk. He was a big guy, already six feet tall at seventeen, brawny and big-shouldered, and he didn't get drunk easily. He rolled down the side window and let a crisp fall breeze off the Hudson help keep him awake. He was tired, and as soon as he relaxed behind the wide circle of the truck's steering wheel, sleep started to creep up on him.

In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected] Thank you for your support of the author's rights.

For my father and his family, his six brothers and two sisters, the Falcos of Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, New York, and for my mother and her family, the Catapanos and Espositos, from the same neighborhood—all of whom, the children of Italian immigrants, made good and decent lives for themselves and their families and their children and their children's children, among whom are doctors, lawyers, teachers, athletes, artists, and just about everything else. And for our neighborhood's family doctor in the forties and fifties, Pat Franzese, who came to our houses when we were sick and took care of us, often for free or for whatever little might be offered. With love and every good wish and great respect.

FALL 1933

G
iuseppe Mariposa waited at the window with his hands on his hips and his eyes on the Empire State Building. To see the top of the building, the needlelike antenna piercing a pale blue sky, he leaned into the window frame and pressed his face against the glass. He had watched the building go up from the ground, and he liked to tell the boys how he'd been one of the last men to have dinner at the old Waldorf-Astoria, that magnificent hotel that once stood where the world's tallest building now loomed. He stepped back from the window and brushed dust from his suit jacket.

Below him, on the street, a big man in work clothes sat atop a junk cart traveling lazily toward the corner. He carried a black derby riding on his knee as he jangled a set of worn leather reins over the flank of a swayback horse. Giuseppe watched the wagon roll by. When it turned the corner, he took his hat from the window ledge, held it to his heart, and looked at his reflection in a pane of glass. His hair was white now, but still thick and full, and he brushed it back with the palm of his hand. He adjusted the knot and straightened his tie where it had bunched up slightly as it disappeared into his vest. In a shadowy corner of the empty apartment behind him, Jake LaConti tried to speak, but all Giuseppe heard
was a guttural mumbling. When he turned around, Tomasino came through the apartment door and lumbered into the room carrying a brown paper bag. His hair was unkempt as always, though Giuseppe had told him a hundred times to keep it combed—and he needed a shave, as always. Everything about Tomasino was messy. Giuseppe fixed him with a look of contempt that Tomasino, as usual, didn't notice. His tie was loose, his shirt collar unbuttoned, and there was blood on his wrinkled jacket. Tufts of curly black hair stuck out from his open collar.

'He say anything?' Tomasino pulled a bottle of scotch out of the paper bag, unscrewed the cap, and took a swig.

Giuseppe looked at his wristwatch. It was eight thirty in the morning. 'Does he look like he can say anything, Tommy?' Jake's face was battered. His jaw dangled toward his chest.

Tomasino said, 'I didn't mean to break his jaw.'

'Give him a drink,' Giuseppe said. 'See if that helps.'

Jake was sprawled out with his torso propped up against the wall and his legs twisted under him. Tommy had pulled him out of his hotel room at six in the morning, and he still had on the black-and-white-striped silk pajamas he had worn to bed the night before, only now the top two buttons had been ripped away to reveal the muscular chest of a man in his thirties, about half Giuseppe's age. As Tommy knelt to Jake and lifted him slightly, positioning his head so that he could pour scotch down his throat, Giuseppe watched with interest and waited to see if the liquor would help. He had sent Tommy down to the car for the scotch after Jake had passed out. The kid coughed, sending a spattering of blood down his chest. He squinted through swollen eyes and said something that would have been impossible to make out had he not been saying the same three words over and over throughout the beating. 'He's my father,' he said, though it came out as
'E mah fad'
.

'Yeah, we know.' Tommy looked to Giuseppe. 'You got to give it to him,' he said. 'The kid's loyal.'

Giuseppe knelt beside Tomasino. 'Jake,' he said. 'Giacomo. I'll find him anyway.' He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and
used it to keep his hands from getting bloody as he turned the kid's face to look at him. 'Your old man,' he said, 'Rosario's day has come. There's nothing you can do. Rosario, his day is over. You understand me, Jake?'

'
Sì
,' Giacomo said, the single syllable coming out clearly.

'Good,' Giuseppe said. 'Where is he? Where's the son of a bitch hiding?'

Giacomo tried to move his right arm, which was broken, and groaned at the pain.

Tommy yelled, 'Tell us where he is, Jake! What the hell's wrong with you!'

Giacomo tried to open his eyes, as if straining to see who was yelling at him. ' 'E mah fad',' he said.

'
Che cazzo!
' Giuseppe threw up his hands. He watched Jake and listened to his strained breathing. The shouts of children playing came up loud from the street and then faded. He looked to Tomasino before he exited the apartment. In the hall, he waited at the door until he heard the muffled report of a silencer, a sound like a hammer striking wood. When Tommy joined him, Giuseppe said, 'Are you sure you finished him?' He put on his hat and fixed it the way he liked, with the brim down.

'What do you think, Joe?' Tommy asked. 'I don't know what I'm doing?' When Giuseppe didn't answer, he rolled his eyes. 'The top of his head's gone. His brains are all over the floor.'

At the stairwell, atop the single flight of steps down to the street, Giuseppe stopped and said, 'He wouldn't betray his father. You gotta respect him for that.'

'He was tough,' Tommy said. 'I still think you should've let me work on his teeth. I'm telling you, ain't nobody won't talk after a little of that.'

Giuseppe shrugged, admitting Tommy might have been right. 'There's still the other son,' he said. 'We making any progress on that?'

'Not yet,' Tommy said. 'Could be he's hiding out with Rosario.'

Giuseppe considered Rosario's other son for a heartbeat before his
thoughts shifted back to Jake LaConti and how the kid couldn't be beaten into betraying his father. 'You know what?' he said to Tomasino. 'Call the mother and tell her where to find him.' He paused, thinking, and added, 'They'll get a good undertaker, they'll fix him up nice, they can have a big funeral.'

Tommy said, 'I don't know about fixing him up, Joe.'

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'What's the name of the undertaker did such a good job on O'Banion?' Giuseppe asked.

'Yeah, I know the guy you mean.'

'Get him,' Giuseppe said, and he tapped Tommy on the chest. 'I'll take care of it myself, out of my own pocket. The family don't have to know. Tell him to offer them his services for free, he's a friend of Jake's, and so on. We can do that, right?'

'Sure,' Tommy said. 'That's good of you, Joe.' He patted Giuseppe's arm.

'All right,' Giuseppe said. 'So that's that,' and he started down the stairs, taking the steps two at a time, like a kid.

S
onny settled into the front seat of a truck and tilted the brim of his fedora down. It wasn't his truck, but there was no one around to ask questions. At two in the morning this stretch of Eleventh Avenue was quiet except for an occasional drunk stumbling along the wide sidewalk. There'd be a beat cop along at some point, but Sonny figured he'd slink down in the seat, and even if the cop noticed him, which was unlikely, he'd peg him for some mug sleeping off a drunk on a Saturday night—which wouldn't be all that far from the truth since he'd been drinking hard. But he wasn't drunk. He was a big guy, already six feet tall at seventeen, brawny and big-shouldered, and he didn't get drunk easily. He rolled down the side window and let a crisp fall breeze off the Hudson help keep him awake. He was tired, and as soon as he relaxed behind the wide circle of the truck's steering wheel, sleep started to creep up on him.

An hour earlier he'd been at Juke's Joint in Harlem with Cork and Nico. An hour before that he'd been at a speakeasy someplace in midtown, where Cork had taken him after they'd lost almost a hundred bucks between them playing poker with a bunch of Poles over in Greenpoint. They'd all laughed when Cork said he and Sonny should leave while they still had the shirts on their backs. Sonny'd laughed too, though a second earlier he was on the verge of calling the biggest Polack at the table a miserable son-of-a-bitch cheater.
Cork had a way of reading Sonny, and he'd gotten him out of there before he did something stupid. By the time he wound up at Juke's, if he wasn't soused he was getting close to it. After a little dancing and some more drinking, he'd had enough for one night and was on his way home when a friend of Cork's stopped him at the door and told him about Tom. He'd almost punched the kid before he caught himself and slipped him a few bucks instead. Kid gave him the address, and now he was slumped down in some worn-out truck that looked like it dated back to the Great War, watching shadows play over Kelly O'Rourke's curtains.