<p> "We are a family. And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished&#151;but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned." </p> <p> The crowning achievement of a truly phenomenal career, Mario Puzo's final novel is a remarkable epic of greed, treachery, sin, and power beyond mortal imagination. It is a journey to a different time and place&#151;when the Church held the ultimate authority and ambition was cloaked in robes of the richest velvet. But most of all, it is the spellbinding story of a father and his children, bonded by blood, devotion, and dark purpose, who would descend into hell to rise to challenge the heavens; a family whose name is forever emblazoned in the annals of infamy . . . Borgia! </p>