Mark Winegardner The Godfather's Revenge16 CDs (unabridged)

Reader: Scott Brick

In The Godfather's Revenge, the third and concluding novel in Mario Puzo's landmark saga, Mark Winegardner moves the Corleone family onto the biggest stage of all: the intersection of organised crime and national politics. At it's centre:

Michael Corleone, boss of America 's most powerful family, is a haunted man – tormented by demons from his past even as he pursues the mantle of legitimacy.

Former caporegime Nick Geraci, Michael's onetime top earner, is a hunted man-sought with equal fervour by the Corleone, who want him dead, and the feds, whose designs are less clear.

US Attorney General Daniel Brendan Shea, brother to the galvanizing young President James Shea, is an ambitious man – determined to forge a name for himself by toppling the kingpins of organised crime.

Carlo Tramonti is a vindictive man – the capo of the new Orleans syndicate, who will exact his revenge for a public humiliation, no matter the cost.

Tom Hagen is a trapped man, an Irish consigliere in an Italian world, charged with brokering a nearly impossible compromise to spare his organisation the wrath of the government – and in so doing, putting himself in mortal peril.