The Mafia
Subtitle: the long reach of the International Sicilian Mafia
By: Claire Sterling
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780007749201
Subjects: Mafia; Organized crime; Crime organisé
Notes: Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Crime map of Sicily; title: Sicilian Mafia superclans; title: Prologue; title: The view from Palermo; title: Don Luciano Leggio, the winner; title: Don Tommaso Buscetta, the last of the big; title: Losers; title: The deal; title: Exodus from Palermo; title: Starting up : North America; title: Starting up : South America; title: The Scarlet Pimpernel of Corleone; title: Istanbul, Sofia, Naples, and the Golden Crescent; title: The heroin pipeline; title: From the pipeline to the pizza parlor; title: Michele Sindona and the billion-dollar blackmail scam; title: Palermo's great Mafia war; title: Distinguished cadavers; title: The Octopus emerges; title: The shock of recognition; title: Buscetta'f Fall from grace; title: Face to face in a court of law; title: The Octopus at large again; title: Standoff; title: Epilogue; title: Chronology; title: The dead (a partial list).