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The Honored Society - A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia (Paperback)
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In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out
in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five
minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men.
Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta
crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage
influence outside Italy for the first time.
In "The Honored Society" award-winning investigative reporter Petra
Reski reveals the Mafia menace lurking throughout the world-- from
espresso bars in Palermo to European halls of parliament to the
corporate headquarters of enormous agricultural firms. In haunting
and exquisite prose she explores the Byzantine structure of the
'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and other mafia clans throughout Italy --
the code they live by, the destruction they wreak, how they operate
within the country and how they operate internationally. She shows
how these syndicates dominate everything from nuclear waste
disposal to hotel chains to the marijuana trade in Australia and
cocaine trafficked throughout the world. Reski shows how figures
such as Silvio Berlusconi were made by the Mafia, and how those who
dared to defy its codes were broken. A searing portrait of the
criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes
of the globe, "The Honored Society" is a journalistic tour de
force.
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