![]() ![]() Meanwhile, organized crime fights against increased law enforcement efforts led by Attorney General Danny Shea (historically analogous to Robert Kennedy) and his brother, President Jimmy Shea (analogous to John F. Their plans are thrown into disarray when Hagen is framed for the murder of his mistress. Michael and Tom Hagen try to thwart the revenge plans of former Corleone family caporegime Nick Geraci. Michael Corleone is coping poorly after ordering the murder of his brother Fredo and giving custody of his children to his former wife Kay Adams. The novel shows how Sonny, Fredo and Tom Hagen came to join the family business, as well as the deaths of Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. The novel expands on Michael's service in World War II as well as his brother Fredo's secret life. The other half of the novel goes deeper into Michael's role as Don and his dream of legitimizing the Corleone family. Many of Puzo's characters are expanded upon, especially Fredo Corleone, Tom Hagen, and Johnny Fontane, and new characters like Nick Geraci, Mickey Shea, Danny Shea, and Francesca Corleone are introduced. The events of the film The Godfather Part II take place within the time frame of this novel, but are only mentioned in the background. The story picks up immediately after the end of the first novel. However, Guiliano makes enemies in both law enforcement and organized crime circles, and his quest to free Sicily from oppression is ultimately unsuccessful. ![]() Guiliano's rise from an ordinary Sicilian peasant to a power in Sicily rivaling even the Mafia is chronicled. Michael Corleone, about to return from exile in Sicily after the killings of Sollozzo and McCluskey, is instructed by his father to help Sicilian bandit Salvatore Guiliano escape to America with him. Michael then sells the family's businesses in New York and moves the family to Las Vegas. This culminates in the murder of all of the family's enemies, including his brother-in-law Carlo Rizzi, who played a part in Sonny's murder. Under his retired father's tutelage, Michael orchestrates a plan to relocate the Corleone family's power base to Las Vegas. When Michael murders Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey, a police officer on the drug lord's payroll, the conflict escalates into a full-scale war which results in Sonny's murder and Michael's ascension to the head of the family. After Don Vito Corleone is shot by men working for drug dealer Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, Vito's two sons, Sonny and Michael, must run the family business with the help of consigliere Tom Hagen and the two caporegimes Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. The Corleone family fights a mob war with the other four Mafia families in New York City in the years after World War II. ![]()
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