Scarface (novel) Scarface (novel) Scarface is a novel written by Armitage Trail in 1929 and published in 1930. The 1932 film "Scarface" was based on it. The twenty-eight year-old author died suddenly of a heart attack in 1930. The book's storyline is heavily inspired by the real life gangster Al Capone whose nickname was also "Scarface". It concerns the rise and fall of Tony "Scarface" Camonte, who after performing a hit on mob leader Al Springola, moves in to take over the illegal alcohol business in Chicago during the Prohibition Era. He is ultimately shot dead by his brother (who concurrently rises
Scarface: The World Is Yours by the "Scarface" film) and 2004's "". It was also praised for maintaining the tone of the film, for its humor, and for the accuracy of the depiction of Montana himself. The game was also a commercial success, selling over one and a half million units across all platforms. "Scarface" is an open world action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective, in which the player controls Tony Montana as he attempts to regain control of Miami's drug trade, destroy rival gangs, and restore his own reputation in the criminal underworld. The basic gameplay and game mechanics fall into the subgenre