The Family - Mario Puzo
The Family
A Novel
Mario Puzo
Completed by Carol Gino
Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded. Though I may be following the devil, I am Thy son, O Lord, and I love Thee, and I feel the joy without which the world cannot stand.
—FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY,
The Brothers Karamazov
FOR BERT FIELDS
WHO SNATCHED VICTORY FROM THE JAWS OF DEFEAT AND WHO COULD BE THE GREATEST CONSIGLIERE OF THEM ALL
WITH ADMIRATION
MARIO PUZO
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