Name: Mafia: A Global History by Gingeras, Ryan
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Author: Gingeras, Ryan

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Published on 12 February 2026 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 432 pages, 2 x 8pp colour plates
234 x 153 |

Few forces have shaped our world as powerfully or as secretly as mafias.

Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, the Medelln Cartel, New York’s Five Families, the Japanese yakuza and Russian vory are notorious, endlessly covered in news stories and popular media. Yet when official histories are written, their role in shaping nations, economies and societies is rarely acknowledged.

In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras draws on more than a decade of research to uncover this suppressed underworld history. Crossing centuries and continents, he introduces legendary figures Al Capone, Pablo Escobar, Du Yuesheng and explores the conditions, cultures and locales that gave birth to modern mafias: Sicily, Marseill

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