Salvatore Tessio......

You're talking about the film. Here we discuss the book. There it goes:

I still seem to remember Puzo mentioning Tessio's first name in the novel

Amazon.com has a cool feature that lets you search the full text of a lot of books. It doesn't look like Tessio is ever identified as Salvatore or Sal.

True M. I always thought that was curious considering, for instance, that Puzo identifies Jack Woltz.

I never knew that before. Thanks for a helpful tip, pete.

I've posted it before: Now and then pdf versions appear (and soon disappear) on the web. The trick to get them is to google a not so famous sentence from the book, such as: "Woltz had gotten the message about the possible labor strike" +pdf

Micahel has been in the Marines since late 1941 through early 1945 and then takes off for college. Yet:

When Mike arrives at Vito's house the night of Vito's shooting, the novel states that the house was full of men he didn't know.

He noticed several other men in the corners of the room, but he didn't recognize them. "They were not of Clemenza's people."

After McCluskey hit him, how is it that Mike recognized (of all people) Clemenza's lawyer who accompanied the private detectives hired to guard Vito at the hospital?

Why would Vito have to arrange Mike's discharge when Mike was suffering from a "disabling" wound?