Omerta is a good book. If the The Godfather didn't exist, we will be talking about it. But i as you read it, you don't care much for its main characters and protagonists. Even the vilains don't have the chilling effect that Sollozzo and Don Barzini had. The proof is that i just read it last year twice and yet i wouldn't be able to name more than 4 characters from that novel. It was as if Puzo had written it rapidly to make a quick buck and wrote it without passion. And towards the end of the novel, the plot takes an implausible and almost comical twist involving an African-AMerican female police officer. Well, my opinion at least.