Poslední kmotr - 3 CDmp3 (Čte Oldřich Kaiser)

Blood-soaked business can have only one leader, and those who are surplus to requirements face a merciless “holy communion” without wafer or wine. In the overly sweet 1960s, Mafia don Domenico Clericuzio prudently has the leaders of a rival Bronx clan eliminated, while deciding that the top levels of organized crime in the United States would benefit from a more respectable image focused on the upper management of the gambling and film industries. Twenty-five years after that strategic meeting, the Clericuzio family’s tactics have clearly succeeded in Las Vegas and Hollywood. Anyone who opposes this family with its devout Catholic roots is silenced in a ceremony known as “holy communion.” Yet as the new millennium approaches, even this wealthy empire faces a generational change and the question of who will restore order under Domenico’s patronage. Will it be his grandson Dante, outwardly a frightening provocateur in ridiculous caps but inwardly a ruthless man who is never far from his gun? Or his grandnephew Cross, the respectable manager of the Xanadu hotel in Las Vegas, where corrupt politicians and inflated figures from the dream factory lose their millions? Cross has become involved with a beautiful woman in trouble, precisely the kind of situation the ageing don has always warned him against. Someone will have to be removed, and at the silencing ceremony there will be no sip of sacramental wine. Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather, is once again in impressive form with this sweeping novel about a cycle of killings. The story was also adapted into a miniseries starring Danny Aiello, Rory Cochrane, Joe Mantegna and Jason Gedrick. This Czech-language audiobook is narrated by Oldřich Kaiser.