Name: Mafia Republic
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John Dickie’s Mafia Brotherhoods was described by the Financial Times as ‘powered by the sort of muscular prose that one associates with great detective fiction’; in Mafia Republic, he again marries outstanding scholarship with compelling storytelling.

In 1946, Italy became a democratic Republic, thereby entering the family of modern western nations. But deep within Italy there lurked a forgotten curse: three major criminal brotherhoods, whose methods had been honed over a century of experience. As Italy grew, so did the mafias. Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, the camorra from Naples, and the mysterious ‘ndrangheta from Calabria stood ready to enter the wealthiest and bloodiest period of their long history.

While Italy made itself rich by making scooters, cars and handbags, the mafias carved out their own route to wealth through tobacco smuggling, construction, kidnapping and narcotics. And as criminal business grew exponentially, the mafias grew no

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