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Fools Die
Fools Die
Author: Mario Puzo
Merlyn and his brother, Artie, obey their own code of honor in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organized crime are one and the same. — Set within America's golden triangle of corruption and excess -- New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas - -the novel plunges into the glittering and ruthless worlds of gambling, publishing, and the ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780451088819
ISBN-10: 0451088816
Publication Date: 10/9/1979
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  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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toni avatar reviewed Fools Die on + 351 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is a great book - as good as The Godfather. This book confronts issues about the society and beliefs within 1950's America, friendships and revenge, power and wealth and most predominantly: self-preservation.

Synopsis (from B&N)
FOOLS DIE is a novel that only Mario Puzo could have written. Encompassing America's golden triangle of corruption - New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas. It plunges you into the electric excitement of luxurious gambling casinos - the heady arena for high rollers and big-time hustlers, scheming manipulators and fancy hookers - a world of greed, lust, violence, and betrayal, where men ruthlessly use their power, where women ravenously use their sex, where only the strongest survive and fools die...

"Master storytelling...sensational reading!" (Los Angeles Times)

"Hypnotic...written with unflagging vitality." (New York Times Book Review)
Biography
Lifelong New Yorker Mario Puzo drew upon figures in his Italian-American family to create the characters in his smash hit The Godfather in 1969; but he claimed never to have met a real-life mobster, and his detailed portrait of the Mafia world came entirely from diligent research.
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Corruption, gangsters, and all the familiar but interesting plots, that only the author of The Godfather, could write.


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