The Prizzi’s comeback is a cruel, vivid, comic portait of America’s best-run institution, the Mafia. The Prizzis have long proved that with good planning, a Mafia chief can take his family from the humblest beginnings to a billion dollar base in America. And the acquisition of such large amounts of money automatically commands respectability – success demands it, money buys it. After all, those old robber barons, the Mellons, the Astors achieved the ultimate respectability, so why not the Prizzis? And in Prizzi’s Glory they go for it!

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Franchising their multifarious operations, the members of the environment will turn their attention to mainstream American where the Game of Politics is played. Helping old Don Corrado Prizzi, capo di tutti capi, achieve his last wish, his granddaughter Maerose, interior decorator de luxe, sees to it that the word goes out: the gambling, narcotics, extortion, murder, pornography, loan-sharking, prostitution - all their old lines of work will be franchised to other up-and-comers, while the Prizzis will use the profits for a new kind of plunder: national political power.

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Perhaps even more thrilling: after nineteen years of engagement to Charley Partanna, Maerose finally gets her man…only, like so many other wives, to undertake his immediate reform, with what significant results readers will be surprised and delighted to learn.

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All those marvelous character (those left alive) are here: Don Corrado, Edward S. Price (ne Prizzi), American industrialist and art patron; Charley’s father Angelo, longtime consigliere; not to mention Charley himself, whose reluctant rise to respectability readers cannot fail to rejoice in- plus 1,100 assorted hoodlums.