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The Octopus: The Rise and Rise of the Sicilian Mafia
Author(s): Joe Pieri (Author)
- Publisher: Mercat Press
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1841831271
- ISBN-13: 9781841831275
Book Description
This book reveals a shocking and sensational story: the mafia and the huge syndicates it controls have infiltrated the government in Italy, the US, the highest levels of the Catholic Church, and in modern times, are even implicated in the murder of an American president and the pope. At lower levels of criminality the mafia is omnipresent – from prostitution, gambling and boot-legging during the Prohibition era in the 1920’s, to the present day control of drug trafficking in Europe and America. The annals of the mafia are bloodstained and littered with corpses, both of the mobsters themselves and the law-abiding citizens and legislators who have tried to resist their intimidation. Peopled with compelling characters, Pieri rattles through the tangle of rackets, fueds, business affairs and political chicanery that satisfies our fascination with the criminal underworld.
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About the Author
Joe Pieri is the author of several successful books including Tales of the Savoy, Isle of the Displaces and The Big Men.
