OK...so I'm reading the book.

There's this whole paragraph where after discovering the head of his beloved Kharthoum, Woltz ponders what Corleone has done just to get Fontaine this movie part...after he had confidently turned Hagen away with an unequivocable NO to casting him in the part.

Is the conclusion Woltz comes to that if he will to this to a six hundred thousand dollar horse, he is capable of just about anything else and therefore Woltz has no choice but to offer Fontaine the part in the movie?

Have to say...it's a very interesting and well worded passage, you can almost look into Woltz's mind as he makes his decision.

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