Omerta is probably my favorite Puzo book. I'd hate to keep ragging on the guy (my inner Sinatra fan boy is showing), but I think I enjoyed Omerta more because it's shorter, as he wrote it while he was ill and probably rushed it to get it done. In my view, it probably made the book better. It gets right to the point. Not a bad tale of mob life in the '90s on the east coast, a good compliment to the success of the Sopranos at that time.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
