
The Dark Arena
by Mario Puzo | Romance | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0345441699 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0345441699 Global Overview for this book
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A lovely vintage cover (this print is from 1968). A Puzo I didn't know existed until I run to a copy of it at the local library's bookstore. The first copy I bought for reading, then a few weeks later looks like I forgot I had it and here we go again. :)
Amazon's copypasta: "Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena–an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .
After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved–and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision–between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . ."
Amazon's copypasta: "Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena–an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .
After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved–and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision–between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . ."

On the way to Supertalya - to keep the English readers happy on that side of the world...
Safe journey little book - I hope you'll make many new friends on your travels!
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Safe journey little book - I hope you'll make many new friends on your travels!
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Thanks so much! This is a perfect fit for the soldiers up at the DMZ (border of North and South Korea).

Journal Entry 4 by Supertalya at Camp Red Cloud in Uijongbu City, Kyonggi-do South Korea on Thursday, September 2, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (9/2/2010 UTC) at Camp Red Cloud in Uijongbu City, Kyonggi-do South Korea
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book will go up the the soldiers protecting the North and South Korean border (DMZ).