The Godfather - Mario Puzo

In a summer in 1945, guests and close friends are invited to the only daughter of Don Vito Corleone, the leader of the Corleone mafia family. who is also called as Godfather. He's got a really close assistant named Tom Hagen, who is actually a lawyer and a counselor. Beside that, his youngest son, Michael Corleone has returned from World War II as a hero, he tells his girlfriend Kay Adams about his father's crimes and proves that he has nothing to do with his father's crimes.


Among the guests invited to the wedding with the famous singer Johnny Fontane, the sponsoring of Vito Corleone, finds The Godfather for the proposal to help him get roles in Hollywood films of Jack Woltz, who had previously refused blunt Fontane.

Hagen was sent to California to negotiate but still angry, Woltz says never delivered the roles to Fontane. The next morning when Woltz wakes up, he realizes that the head of his unique horse, that he introduced with Hagen earlier, is locating right next to him.

Then, a popular heroin trader named Virgil Sollozzo with the nick name "The Turk", who has influence with the family Tattaglia hostile. The Turk requests Vito Corleone to protect him politically for him to import and distribute a great amount of drugs, as a result , the request is declined by Vito Corleone. After that, Hagen is kidnapped by Sollozzo and his people, the Godfather also gets shot by Sollozzo's people but unsuccessfully. After keeping Hagen for a period of time, Hagen is sent back home to with the expedition to encourage Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of Vito Corleone, but still it is declined.

Find that his father's life is threatened, Michael Corleone, the youngest child of Don Vito Corleone, volunteers himself to assassinate Sollozzo. He appoints Sollozzo to a restaurant to be able to kill Sollozzo easier. Then he successfully kills Sollozzo by the hidden gun in the toilet. Tom Hagen then sends Michael to a Sicilia island, where he is protected fully by local mafia.

Will the Corleone family be safe after assassinating Sollozzo?

This book is so thought-provoking that has caused a strange negative feeling that makes me don't want to stop reading it by the uses of words and the descriptions of the characters by the author, Mario Puzo.