This volume dispels the Hollywood romance surrounding the Mafia to reveal the huge and menacing force lurking everywhere - from street corners to parliament offices, construction sites to corporate headquarters - and involved in everything from petty extortion to the disposal of nuclear waste.

From New Orleans to Tokyo, justice is served. Cain Lemaire, a Secret Service agent from New Orleans, has the job he?s always wanted - until a single night results in a scandal that gets him fired. Needing a new direction, Cain follows his sister to Japan and takes a job in Tokyo as head of security for the CEO of a top company. But what he thought was a simple security assignment unravels a tangled web of corruption, greed and extortion. Without the...

This is the true story of Toto Riina, the Cosa Nostra boss who rose from nothing to become the most powerful man in Sicily. The picture emerges of a bloodthirsty, power-hungry monster who, despite his lowly beginnings, is able to outmanoeuvre the other Mafia chiefs and take control of the organisation. However, the story is not just that of Riina, but also of Sicily itself. D'Avanzo and Bolzoni have transformed a complex series of events spanning...

Intrigued by remarks made by his grandfather about the murder of his own grandfather Francisco Viviano in 19th century Sicily, the author returns to the small fishing village west of Palermo, and over a period of several years begins to explore the past.

From New Orleans to Tokyo, justice is served. Cain Lemaire, a Secret Service agent from New Orleans, has the job he's always wanted - until a single night results in a scandal that gets him fired. Needing a new direction, Cain follows his sister to Japan and takes a job in Tokyo as head of security for the CEO of a top company. But what he thought was a simple security assignment unravels a tangled web of corruption, greed and extortion. Without the...

In an extensive investigation into the former Cuban underworld, Enrique Cirules exposes the close ties that existed between the Mafia, US business interests and intelligence agancies and their often brutally enforced reign over pre-revolutionary Cuba.

1930s New York City. Three brothers grow up poor on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father forces them to find work to support their family. Each brother takes a different path. Twelve-year-old Morris Rabishevsky apprentices himself to a garment manufacturer with the aim of running the business. Sol, six years older, heads to accounting school but is forced to drop out. Scarred by a family tragedy, Harry falls under the spell of the...

The team thought that Frank Meyer had got out of the 'life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf and settled down with his wife and children. Encouraged by his boss and friend Joe Pike, he had walked away. When he is murdered ten years later, Pike is determined to hunt the killers down.

The 'Ndrangheta is the world's most powerful Mafia and it's behind a litany of violence, organised crime and corruption around the world. Bound together by blood ties, silent but deadly, and steeped in religious ritual, they are a Mafia unlike any other, and vastly more dangerous. Sanne De Boer takes us deep inside this extraordinary criminal organisation. In 2006, Sanne, a journalist, moved from Amsterdam to a quiet coastal town in Calabria. She...

On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its number one enemy, the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards. 'Vendetta', for the first time, tells the inside story of the assassination plots and investigations that followed.