“Sonny said very simply, ‘Sollozzo is dead meat. I don’t care what it costs. I don’t care if we have to fight all the five Families in New York.’[...] Michael said softly, ‘That’s not how Pop would have played it.’ Sonny made a violent gesture. I know I’m not the man he was. But I’ll tell you this and he’ll tell you too. When it comes to real action I can operate as good as anybody, short-range.[...] I ‘made my bones’ when I was nineteen, the last time the Family had a war..”
