Mafia
Subtitle: inside the dark heart, the rise and fall of the Sicilian Mafia
By: A.G.D. Maran
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780312646585
Subjects: Mafia; History
Description: Exhaustive research and interviews detail the story of the rise and fall of the Sicilian Mafia and its links with the Cosa Nostra in American.
Notes: "Thomas Dunne books."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411).
Table of contents: title: 1: The rise; title: Why the Mafia developed; title: What the Mafia had to offer; title: An offer not to be refused; title: Portrait of a Godfather; title: A Republic within a kingdom; title: Exodus to L'America; title: Mussolini and the Mafia; title: Prohibition and profits; title: Crime gets organised; title: Liberation, American-style; title: Salvatore Giuliano; title: The unholy alliance; title: The Mafia comes to the city; title: 2: The Zenith; title: The American Cosa Nostra; title: How the Mafia moved on to drugs; title: Lucky Luciano's summit; title: How the French Connection became Sicilian; title: The first cracks appear; title: Corleone; title: The Mafia Heartland; title: How the Mafia laundered money; title: Why the Vatican needed a bank; title: The death of a Pope; title: Propaganda Massonica due; title: The man who duped the Vatican; title: Death of God's banker; title: 3: The fall; title: The Mafia Civil War; title: The Magistrates; title: The breakthrough; title: Revenge; title: The politicians; title: War on the state; title: Pax Mafiosa; title: Berlusconi and the Mafia; title: Sicily today.