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In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an
Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over
seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims
and assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization;
Calabria's Mafia had extended the savage tentacle of its influence
outside Italy for the first time. For the men of the 'Ndrangheta,
time is still measured in hour-glasses and honour may only be
washed with blood. Petra Reski dispels the Hollywood romance
surrounding the Mafia to reveal the huge and menacing force lurking
everywhere - from street corner to parliament offices, construction
site to corporate headquarters - and involved in everything from
petty extortion to the disposal of nuclear waste. Reski's searing
portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy
but vast swathes of Europe, is a journalistic tour de force.
Italy has been, and remains, a dream destination for many tourists.
Travellers to the country enjoy its cultural history, beaches,
climate, and wonderful food, but if one looks behind the beautiful
backdrop of the historical old cities and magnificent landscapes,
one often encounters the other side of Italy: citizens’
dissatisfaction with their own country, poverty, chaos,
environmental pollution, the mafia, and violence, as well as a
corrupt, decadent political system. In his journeys from the south
to the north of the country, the photographer Christian Jungeblodt
(*1962), who lived in Italy for a long time himself, makes the
closeness of beauty and ugliness, luster and squalor, grandeur and
the abyss visible. Essays by renowned authors like Petra Reski and
John Hooper accompany this photo book with its wealth of colour
photographs and black-and-white smartphone photos. Text in English
and Italian.
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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