Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafianovels. But before creating those masterpieces Puzo wrote his first acclaimednovel <st... » 

Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafianovels. But before creating those masterpieces Puzo wrote his first acclaimednovel The Dark Arenaan astounding story of a warscarred young American in abattle against corruption and betrayal. . . .After coming home at the end of World War II Walter Mosca finds himself toorestless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find thewoman he had once lovedand to start some kind of life in a vanquished country.But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue as hesuccumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters adifferent kind of war one in which he must make a fateful decisionbetweenlove and ambition passion and greed life and death. . . . «