"Michael agrees to meet me but he wants it to be a public place...a bar or a restaurant where he'll safe. Louis is chosen, but they try to keep it a secret from the Corleones.
public like Sollozzo's car?
The Bocchicchios make it sound like it wouldn't matter where Michael met the Sollozzo.
Right. The novel says that, if Michael had been killed by Sol, the Corleones would kill the Bocchicchio hostage. Then the Bo's would take vengeance on Sol. "They would let nothing stop them...a Bocchicchio hostage was gilt-edged insurance."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
