Boss of Bosses: A Journey Into the Heart of the Sicilian Mafia

by Clare Longrigg

Book Overview

In the 1980s, the broad legal mandate of the RICO act succeeded in crushing much of the backbone of the traditional American Mafia. Across the ocean however, in the ancestral Sicilian homeland of La Cosa Nostra, the Mafia was anything but finished. Possessed of a power thought to rival that of the Italian state itself, for the past decades, the Sicilian Mafia has waged a war on the forces of law and order that has not only left thousands dead, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312533942
• ISBN13: 9780312533946
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"