On the night before the shooting of Don Corleone, his strongest and most
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- Going to race him, I'm going to put him to stud. I'm going to build the greatest
- Much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the
- Make me ridiculous. A man in my position, Mr. Hagen, can't afford to look
- For the first time, Woltz succeeded in astounding Hagen. He found it
- Naturally, anxious to show their gratitude.
- Were one hundred thousand black Chevy sedans in New York City.
- Tom Hagen went to his law office in the city on Thursday morning. He planned
- Threat against Don Corleone himself. Genius had its rewards.
- Be made to tell who had done the buying.
- Producer of the film telling him to report for work the following Monday.
- For any rap as long as he knows that they will be well taken care of for living
- Notoriously straitlaced in matters of sex.
- Legal protection is a must. I hear, Don Corleone, that you have as many judges in
- His leather armchair and motioned brusquely for a drink. Hagen poured him a
- Without a shred of trust Hagen got into the car.
- Michael Corleone had lied to Hagen. He was already in New York, and he had
- Worrying Sonny Corleone out in Long Beach.
- At a quarter to five that afternoon, Don Corleone had finished checking the
- Passed. They disappeared around the corner, leaving Freddie alone in the street
- In the half hour after the shooting of his father, Sonny Corleone received five
- It was Clemenza. The fat man's voice came wheezing over the phone in
- His mother looked at him steadily for a moment and then asked in Italian,
- Could be but one outcome. But again the nagging worry. Where was Luca Brasi?
- Counting the driver, there were four men in the car with Hagen. They put him
- And suddenly Hagen knew that he was no longer going to be set free. That
- When Michael Corleone arrived at his father's house in Long Beach he found
- Young to know about it and then things got pretty smooth while you were
- Want it to be Paulie either.
- Don't care if we have to fight all the five families in New York. The Tattaglia Family
- It was nearly four o'clock in the morning as they all sat in the corner room
- Brasi's number and kept the receiver to his ear as it rang and rang.
- Peter Clemenza slept badly that night. In the morning he got up early and
- Impressive apprenticeship in the Family. During the war he had been wounded in
- If displeased with him. With a man so sensitive and suspicious as Gatto this
- Talk about that later. You understand the Family now is occupied with more
- Bronx to his home in Manhattan.
- On the night before the shooting of Don Corleone, his strongest and most
- Meeting was not as outlandish as it seemed.
- Humanity remaining to him. He was dead.
- The day after the shooting of Don Corleone was a busy time for the Family.
- Could be. I think though that Sollozzo gave him a little surprise. That fits in with
- Bulletproof vest in his hands. Wrapped In the vest was a huge dead fish.
- When Michael Corleone went into the city that night it was with a depressed
- Years passed, she would not have been able to bear the anguish of it.
- When Michael got out of the cab in front of the French Hospital he was
- Before, in terrible pain, yet smiled benevolently on his youngest son, wanting to
- Too tight for them. They sat leaning forward, their elbows on the counter.
- George opened the slit that opened back into the kitchen. “Sam,” he called.
- Door into the kitchen and untied Nick and the cook.
- Outside the arc-light shone through the bare branches of a tree. Nick walked up
Loyal and most feared retainer prepared to meet with the enemy. Luca Brasi had
Made contact with the forces of Sollozzo several months before. He had done so
On the orders of Don Corleone himself. He had done so by frequenting the
Nightclubs controlled by the Tattaglia Family and by taking up with one of their
Top call girls. In bed with this call girl he grumbled about how he was held down
In the Corleone Family, how his worth was not recognized. After a week of this
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Affair with the call girl, Luca was approached by Bruno Tattaglia, manager of the
Nightclub. Bruno was the youngest son, and ostensibly not connected with the
Family business of prostitution. But his famous nightclub with its dancing line of
Long-stemmed beauties was the finishing school for many of the city hookers.
The first meeting was all above-board, Tattaglia offering him a job to work in
The Family business as enforcer. The flirtation went on for nearly a month. Luca
Played his role of man infatuated with a young beautiful girl, Bruno Tattaglia the
Role of a businessman trying to recruit an able executive from a rival. At one such
meeting, Luca pretended to be swayed, then said, "But one thing must be
Understood. I will never go against the Godfather. Don Corleone is a man I
Respect. I understand that he must put his sons before me in the Family
business."
Bruno Tattaglia was one of the new generation with a barely hidden contempt
For the old Moustache Petes like Luca Brasi, Don Corleone and even his own
father. He was just a little too respectful. Now he said, "My father wouldn't expect
You to do anything against the Corleones. Why should he? Everybody gets along
With everybody else now, it's not like the old days. It's just that if you're looking
For a new job, I can pass along the word to my father. There's always need for a
Man like you in our business. It's a hard business and it needs hard men to keep
it running smooth. Let me know if you ever make up your mind."
4 Luca shrugged. "It's not so bad where I'm at." And so they left it.
The general idea had been to lead the Tattaglias to believe that he knew about
The lucrative narcotics operation and that he wanted a piece of it free-lance. In
That fashion he might hear something about Sollozzo's plans if the Turk had any,
Or whether he was getting ready to step on the toes of Don Corleone. After
Waiting for two months with nothing else happening, Luca reported to the Don
That obviously Sollozzo was taking his defeat graciously. The Don had told him to
Keep trying but merely as a sideline, not to press it.
Luca had dropped into the nightclub the evening before Don Corleone's being
Shot. Almost immediately Bruno Tattaglia had come to his table and sat down.
7 "I have a friend who wants to talk to you," he said.
8 "Bring him over," Luca said. "I'll talk to any friend of yours."
9 "No," Bruno said. "He wants to see you in private."
10 "Who is he?" Luca asked.
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11 "Just a friend of mine," Bruno Tattaglia said. "He wants to put a proposition
to you. Can you meet him later on tonight?"
12 "Sure," Luca said. "What time and where?"
13 Tattaglia said softly, "The club closes at four in the morning. Why don't you
meet in here while the waiters are cleaning up?"
They knew his habits, Luca thought, they must have been checking him out.
He usually got up about three or four in the afternoon and had breakfast, then
Amused himself by gambling with cronies in the Family or had a girl. Sometimes
He saw one of the midnight movies and then would drop in for a drink at one of
The clubs. He never went to bed before dawn. So the suggestion of a four A.M.
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