'We are a family,' Alexander told his children. 'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished - but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned'. In a tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career, he brings us the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias. "Keeps readers turning pages all the way to an explosive showdown" Daily Mail "Headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayal, assassinations, Richter-scale romance, and, of course, family values" Time "Hugely effective fiction...[Puzo] keeps his pact with readers to unfailingly deliver the goods" Literary Review "Puzo is a master storyteller with an uncanny facility for details that force the reader to keep the pages turning. Call it a literary meat-hook" USA Today "Puzo's genius was to create a world so thick with personality and behaviour ... that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure" New York Post