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The Secret History of Italy`s Most Powerful Mafia

In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and assassins were members of the `Ndrangheta crime organization; Calabria`s Mafia had extended the savage tentacle of its influence outside Italy for the first time. For the men of the `Ndrangheta, time is still measured in hour-glasses and honour may only be washed with blood. Petra Reski dispels the Hollywood romance surrounding the Mafia to reveal the huge and menacing force lurking everywhere – from street corner to parliament offices, construction site to corporate headquarters – and involved in everything from petty extortion to the disposal of nuclear waste. Reski`s searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes of Europe, is a journalistic tour de force.

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