Mafia Brotherhoods

Mafia Brotherhoods Camorra, Mafia, 'Ndrangheta : The Rise of the Honoured Societies

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Publisher's Synopsis

An enthralling history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international bestseller COSA NOSTRA.

The Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The south of the country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra, from Naples and its hinterland; and the 'ndrangheta, the mafia from the poor and isolated region of Calabria that has now risen to become the most powerful mob of all.

Each of these brotherhoods has its own methods, its own dark rituals, its own style of ferocity and corruption. Their early history is little known; indeed some of it has been entirely shrouded in myth and silence until now.

MAFIA BROTHERHOODS is a book of breathtaking ambition, charting the birth and rise of all three of Italy's mafias. It blends ground-breaking archival research, passionate narrative, and shrewd historical analysis to bring Italy's unique 'criminal ecosystem', and the three terrifying criminal brotherhoods that evolved within it, to life on the page.

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Sceptre

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Sceptre is the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton bringing you thought-provoking, award-winning and critically acclaimed fiction and non-fiction.

Book information

ISBN: 9780340963944
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint: Sceptre
Pub date:
DEWEY: 364.10609457
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 434
Weight: 380g
Height: 198mm
Width: 135mm
Spine width: 31mm