Prizzi Books

PRIZZI'S HONOR is no ordinary story of boy-meets-girl. Charley Partanna is a faithful lieutenant for the Prizzis, New York's most powerful Mafia family. The object of his affections is Irene Walker, a Los Angeles-based tax consultant. But it's her freelancing that pays--she's a hit woman for the Mob. She has also cheated the Prizzis out of an unforgivably large sum of money. This is very dangerous moonlighting indeed, and eventually it places Charley's oldest loyalties in conflict with his newest one. Which wins? "His best book since THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE...he mixes caricature and character as easily as Charley hacks off thumbs." (Chicago Tribune Book World)

Follows hit man Charley Partanna as he threads his way through the dangerous family politics of organized crime's ruling family, the Prizzis

Centers on the Prizzis' efforts to influence a presidential election and ensure that Charley Partanna becomes the new president's right hand man

Organizing a daring plot to raise herself out of poverty, Julia Ashbury flees with more than a billion dollars in Prizzi funds, and hit man and womanizer Charley Partanna is ordered to track her down. Reprint.