From the novel:

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Vito: "...I’m surprised, though, that Barzini still made a last try at you.
Maybe it was arranged before the peace talk and he couldn’t
stop it. Are you sure they were not after Don Tommasino?"

Michael said, ‘That’s the way it was supposed to look. And
it would have been perfect, even you would never have sus-
pected. Except that I came out alive. I saw Fabrizzio going
through the gate, running away. And of course I’ve checked
it all out since I’ve been back."


"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."