The Mafia

The brutal truth at point blank range.Drawing on two decades of original research and personal experience, multi award-winning writer the late George Carpozi Jr and William Balsamo, great nephew of the first godfather, Don Guiseppe 'Battista' Balsamo, trace the Mafia's beginnings from an underground patriotic society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, through the group of Italian immigrants - the Black Hand - who savagely tore control of New York's waterfronts away from the Irish racketeers, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, and whose insidious influence even reached into a presidential administration.The Mafia has long been one of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisations. This book, with filmic detail, behind-closed-doors dialogue and first-hand story-telling, gets deeper inside it than ever before. Compulsively chilling, The Mafia: The First 100 Years reads like the best crime fiction, yet is the terrifying, deadly truth.

Auteur

William Balsamo (Author)
William Balsamo is the great-nephew of Don Giuseppe - 'Battista' - Balsamo, the first godfather.

George Carpozi Jr. (Author)
George Carpozi Jr. is a journalist, biographer and writer who has worked on the New York Journal American and the New York Post.

Texte du rabat

Award-winning writer Balsamo and great nephew of the godfather Carpozi Jr. draw on decades of research to take stock of the story of the Mafia from its beginnings, with lively behind-closed-doors dialogue and filmic detail throughout.

Résumé

How did the Mob evolve from a disorganised gang of uncouth killers into the deadly 'international corporation' it is today?

Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, William Balsamo great-nephew of the original godfather and George Carpozi Jr draw on two decades of research to tell the true story of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisation in history.