日期：2022-09-14 The Sicilian sun, early-morning lemon-colored, filled Michaels bedroom. He awoke and, feeling Apollonias satiny body against his own sleep-warm skin, made her come awake with love. When they were done, even all the months of complete possession coul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 After five months of exile in Sicily, Michael Corleone came finally to understand his fathers character and his destiny. He came to understand men like Luca Brasi, the ruthless caporegime Clemenza, his mothers resignation and acceptance of her role.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Lucy Mancini, a year after Sonnys death, still missed him terribly, grieved for him more fiercely than any lover in any romance. And her dreams were not the insipid dreams of a schoolgirl, her longings not the longings of a devoted wife. She was not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 But it was to be nearly another year before Don Corleone could arrange for his son Michael to be smuggled back into the United States. During that time the whole Family racked their brains for suitable schemes. Even Carlo Rizzi was listened to now t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 The death of Santino Corleone sent shock waves through the underworld of the nation. And when it became known that Don Corleone had risen from his sick bed to take charge of the Family affairs, when spies at the funeral reported that the Don seemed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Perhaps it was the stalemate that made Sonny Corleone embark on the bloody course of attrition that ended in his own death. Perhaps it was his dark violent nature given full rein. In any case, that spring and summer he mounts senseless raids on enem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Amerigo Bonasera lived only a few blocks from his undertaking establishment on Mulberry Street and so always went home for supper. Evenings he returned to his place of business, dutifully joining those mourners paying their respects to the dead who... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 The war of 1947 between the Corleone Family and the Five Families combined against them proved to be expensive for both sides. It was complicated by the police pressure put on everybody to solve the murder of Captain McCluskey. It was rare that oper... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Carlo Rizzi was punk sore at the world. Once married into the Corleone Family, hed been shunted aside with a small bookmakers business on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Hed counted on one of the houses in the mall on Long Beach, he knew the Don c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 In the New Hampshire village, every foreign phenomenon was properly noticed by housewives peering from windows, storekeepers lounging behind their doors. And so when the black automobile bearing New York license plates stopped in front of the Adams... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 The Don was a real man at the age of twelve. Short, dark, slender, living in the strange Moorish-looking village of Corleone in Sicily, he had been born Vito Andolini, but when strange men came to kill the son of the man they had murdered, his mothe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Johnny Fontane sat in the huge recording studio and figured costs on a yellow pad. Musicians were filing in, all of them friends he had known since he was a kid singer with the bands. The conductor, top man in the business of pop accompaniment and a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Johnny Fontane waved a casual dismissal to the manservant and said, See you in the morning, Billy. The colored butler bowed his way out of the huge dining room-living room with its view of the Pacific Ocean. It was a friendly-goodbye sort of bow, no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Captain Mark McCluskey sat in his office fingering three envelopes bulging with betting slips. He was frowning and wishing he could decode the notations on the slips. It was very important that he do so. The envelopes were the betting slips that his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 The hospital was small and private with just one entrance. Michael looked through the window down into the street. There was a curved courtyard that had steps leading down into the street and the street was empty of cars. But whoever came into the h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 When Michael Corleone went into the city that night it was with a depressed spirit. He felt that he was being enmeshed in the Family business against his will and he resented Sonny using him even to answer the phone. He felt uncomfortable being on t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 The day after the shooting of Don Corleone was a busy time for the Family. Michael stayed by the phone relaying messages to Sonny. Tom Hagen was busy trying to find a mediator satisfactory to both parties so that a conference could be arranged with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 On the night before the shooting of Don Corleone, his strongest and most loyal and most feared retainer prepared to meet with the enemy. Luca Brasi had made contact with the forces of Sollozzo several months before. He had done so on the orders of D... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 Peter Clemenza slept badly that night. In the morning he got up early and made his own breakfast of a glass of grappa, a thick slice of Genoa salami with a chunk of fresh Italian bread that was still delivered to his door as in the old days. Then he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-09-14 It was nearly four oclock in the morning as they all sat in the corner room office--- Sonny, Michael, Tom Hagen, Clemenza and Tessio. Theresa Hagen had been persuaded to go to her own home next door. Paulie Gatto was still waiting in the living room... 阅读全文>>