Joseph Lucadello
| Joseph Lucadello | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Godfather Returns |
| Last appearance | The Godfather's Revenge |
| Created by | Mario Puzo |
| Information | |
| Alias | Ike Rosen |
| Nickname | Ike Rosen |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Gangster, CIA agent |
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Joseph P. Lucadello (also known as Ike Rosen) is a fictional character in Mark Winegardner's novels The Godfather Returns and The Godfather's Revenge. Both novels are based on the original novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
The Godfather Returns introduces Lucadello as an informant to the Corleone family and a CIA agent who originally enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force under Billy Bishop in 1941. Before this, he served in the Civilian Conservation Corps with Michael Corleone. Fearing Benito Mussolini's rise to power, the two falsified pilot's licenses to join Bishop, but Michael's father Vito Corleone tipped Bishop off, and Michael admitted the truth to avoid damaging Lucadello's chances. During World War II, Lucadello lost an eye, afterward wearing an eye patch and, later, a glass prosthetic. After the war, he left the Air Force and became a CIA agent. He eventually became the main assistant of the CIA director, Albert Soffet.
Around this time, he began informing the Corleone family of the CIA's plans to confront organized crime. Lucadello met with Michael Corleone several times, although these meetings were not specifically for business. The novel portrays Lucadello as the closest thing Michael had to a friend; nevertheless, Michael did not fully trust him.
In The Godfather Returns, Lucadello was assigned to oversee a failed plot to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1959. In 1962, after a Castro body double was killed, he was assigned to eliminate the assassin, Carmine Marino.
In The Godfather Returns, Lucadello informed main antagonist Nick Geraci, a former Corleone family caporegime who sought to dethrone Michael as head of the family, that Michael was planning to assassinate him. Michael never discovered who betrayed him, and despite the fierce attempt to locate Geraci, he never found him. At the end of the novel, Lucadello was found dead with an ice pick penetrating his only eye.
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