Also By Mario Puzo
Fiction:
THE DARK ARENA*
THE FORTUNATE PILGRIM
THE GODFATHER
FOOLS DIE
THE SICILIAN*
THE FOURTH K
THE LAST DON*
OMERTA*
THE FAMILY
THE GODFATHER RETURNS*
Nonfiction:
THE GODFATHER PAPERS
INSIDE LAS VEGAS
Children’s Book:
THE RUNAWAY SUMMER OF DAVIE SHAW
*Published by The Random House Publishing Group
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1964, 1992, 1997 by Mario Puzo
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published by Atheneum Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York, in 1964.
Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This edition published by arrangement with the author and Random House, Inc.
First Ballantine Books Edition: August 1998
Second Ballantine Books Edition: October 2004
eISBN: 978-0-345-48070-5
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