Publisher's Synopsis
What does it mean to belong to an organization like the Japanese Yakuza, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, or the powerful Russian mafias? How do you join and move up in rank, and what happens if you break the rules? Federico Varese has studied organized crime for decades, infiltrating into initiation ceremonies and attending discreet meetings in luxury hotels, and brings us this portrait of a universe dominated by fear, death, and pain.