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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia John Dickie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

When you're interested in the Mafia, there's a lot of sensationalist non-fiction to be avoided. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family Nicholas Pileggi 1985. Like most small Sicilian towns in the orbit of Palermo, Cefalù was run by Mafiosi. CBCNews reports that Valentina Tenti (seen in the above photo), an expert on the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, reveled some of the organized crime group's secrets at a Canadian inquiry into organized crime. Federal government mistakenly and irreversibly misnamed the American variant.) It's well worth reading the history and sociopolitical culture of this scourge. Nostra: Mafia Expert Revels Mob Secrets At Quebec Inquiry. John Dickie Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia Palgrave Macmillan 2005. Author and mafia expert Carl Russo is working on an illustrated travel guide about the Sicilian Mafia and needs our help! Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia Description. Peter Robb Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Food, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra. Four major Mafia gangs plague the country: Cosa Nostra in Sicily, 'Ndrangheta in Calabria, the Sacra Corona Unita in Apulia, and the Camorra in Naples. A Mafia "travel guide?" Sicily's position in the middle of Mediterranean trade routes made its people prey for numerous foreign powers through the millennia. During this era and is credited for making the American La Cosa Nostra what it is today. Finally, it is instructive to look at this tour in the context of another gang-infested culture: Sicily, home of the original mafia, Cosa Nostra (not “La Cosa Nostra,” as the U.S. Donnie-brasco-joseph-pistone, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia Joseph Pistone 1987. Luciano structured the La Cosa Nostra after the Sicilian Mafia. I've been looking for a while for a decent history, and this work definitely fits the bill. Cosa Nostra Assassinated Mafia Busting Sicilian Magistrates Giovanni Falcone (left) and Paolo Borsellino. Charles “Lucky” Luciano, a Mafioso from Sicily, came to the U.S. Quebec's corruption inquiry heard a detailed history of the Italian Mafia on Tuesday — with everything from its secret codes, its origins and the scope of its reach to how it got into the construction business.