Mario Puzo’s brilliant and brutal story of Mafia feuds and retribution in post-war New York is published in a sensational new illustrated Folio Society edition, introduced by Jonathan Freedland.

One of the best-selling books of all time, it is almost impossible to exaggerate the influence that Mario Puzo’s genre-defining novel has had on popular culture since its publication in 1969. From Francis Ford Coppola’s phenomenally successful film trilogy and a slew of deferential movies and television series, to gangland parlance and schoolyard banter, its legacy is multiple and global.