OMERTA EN INGLES PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

OMERTA EN INGLES

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, theirfather's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ridehis horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last greatAmerican Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no onesuspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and how, while the Don'schildren claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for histime to come.Now his time has arrived. The Don is dead, his murder onebloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit--from the deadly compromises madeby an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frighteningplans of a South American mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers,betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Becauseafter all these years, this moment is in his blood.