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      The Dark Arena

      by Mario Puzo
      Published
      Jan 1955
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      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. . . .

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      Aug 1977 Fawcett ISBN13 9780449232958 ISBN10 0449232956
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      Jan 1985 Bantam ISBN13 9780553248609 ISBN10 055324860X
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      Sep 1992 Arrow (UK) ISBN13 9780099418023 ISBN10 0099418029
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      May 2001 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345441690 ISBN10 0345441699
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      Jan 1971 William Heinemann (UK) ISBN13 9780434604920 ISBN10 0434604925
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      Feb 2009 Random House ISBN13 9780307483553 ISBN10 030748355X
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      Dec 2012 William Heinemann (UK) ISBN13 9781448106875 ISBN10 1448106877
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