The narrative bowls along... to keep readers turning pages all the way to an explosive showdown.
Daily Mail
Here is all the classic material of Mafia mythology... spins a spell all its own
The Times
<i>The Godfather</i>, one of the most entertaining and absorbing popular novels of the postwar period... Puzo's masterpiece
- Robert McCrum, Observer
A splendid and distinguished blood saga of the Cosa Nostra, the American Mafia, and of the whirl created by five families of mafiosi at war in New York
Sunday Times
Puzo's genius was to create a world so thick with personality and acknowledged rules of behaviour, along with its crime and violence, that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure
New York Post
As for fiction, there can only be one choice - The Godfather.
The Times