With tentacles reaching from Palermo to Hong Kong, from Caracas to London to Brooklyn, the Octopus, the Sicilian Mafia's international crime corporation, has a stranglehold on a $100 billion heroin market and now has branched out into cocaine. Through the free flow of its laundered billions, the Sicilian Mafia reigns supreme over the entire world of organized crime. Beginning with the resurgence of Italy's secret society in the chaotic aftermath of World War II, this book traces the Mafia's operations, bloody internecine ...
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With tentacles reaching from Palermo to Hong Kong, from Caracas to London to Brooklyn, the Octopus, the Sicilian Mafia's international crime corporation, has a stranglehold on a $100 billion heroin market and now has branched out into cocaine. Through the free flow of its laundered billions, the Sicilian Mafia reigns supreme over the entire world of organized crime. Beginning with the resurgence of Italy's secret society in the chaotic aftermath of World War II, this book traces the Mafia's operations, bloody internecine wars and insignificant retreats from law enforcement assaults as it wrestled dominance from local criminal families.
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Add this copy of The Mafia: How the Sicilian Mafia Controls the to cart. $99.34, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by HarperCollins Publishers.