OMERTA

TO DON RAYMONDE APRILE`S CHILDREN HE WAS A LOYAL FAMILY MEMBER, THEIR FATHER`S ADOPTED "NEPHEW." TO THE FBI HE WAS A MAN WHO WOULD RATHER RIDE HIS HORSES THAN DO MOB BUSINESS. NO ONE KNEW WHY APRILE, THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN DON, HAD ADOPTED ASTORRE VIOLA MANY YEARS BEFORE IN SICILY; NO ONE SUSPECTED HOW HE HAD CAREFULLY TRAINED HIM . . . AND HOW, WHILE THE DON`S CHILDREN CLAIMED RESPECTABLE CAREERS IN AMERICA, ASTORRE VIOLA WAITED FOR HIS TIME TO COME. NOW HIS TIME HAS ARRIVED. THE DON IS DEAD, HIS MURDER ONE BLOODY ACT IN A DRAMA OF AMBITION AND DECEIT--FROM THE DEADLY COMPROMISES MADE BY AN FBI AGENT TO THE GREED OF TWO CROOKED NYPD DETECTIVES AND THE FRIGHTENING PLANS OF A SOUTH AMERICAN MOB KINGPIN. IN A COLLISION OF ENEMIES AND LOVERS, BETRAYERS AND LOYAL SOLDIERS, ASTORRE VIOLA WILL CLAIM HIS DESTINY. BECAUSE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, THIS MOMENT IS IN HIS BLOOD. . . .