The Family

Mario Puzo

Feb 2004 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Philip Bosco

About this audiobook

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys

“One of his most satisfying works....A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—Booklist

Mario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is the ultimate crowning achievement of the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist who gave the world The Godfather, arguably the greatest Mafia crime novel ever written.  In The Family, Puzo—whom the Washington Post calls, “A serious American talent”—plunges reader into the colorful tumult of the Italian Renaissance, immersing them in the roiling intrigues and deadly affairs of the remarkable family whose name has always been synonymous with power, corruption, poison, and murder: the infamous Borgias.

Ratings and reviews

Thanks to Mario Puzo. This is the most thrilling and capavating book I ever read I could not put it down. The characters are so inchanting and the place settings are so transparent. Whenever i read this book I feel like I am there, pulled back by the sands of time transported into that area. Puzo has done such a great job he made me feel like i was a fly on a wall in the Vatican. Hats off Mario!!

About the author

Mario Puzo was the author of the international bestseller The Godfather and cowrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning trio of films based on the book. Puzo's other books include The Last Don and Omerta, both New York Times bestsellers.

Besides The Valachi Papers, (hailed by Rudolph Giuliani as ""the most important book ever written about the Mafia in America"") Peter Maas is the prize-winning author of ten other books of fiction and nonfiction, including Serpico, Manhunt, In a Child's Name, China White, and Killer Spy. Philip Bosco won the Best Actor Tony Award for his role in Lend Me a Tenor. He has received several other Tony nominations and has appeared in numerous feature films.