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The Honored Society: A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia
Petra Reski
In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time.
In The Honored Society award-winning investigative reporter Petra Reski reveals the Mafia menace lurking throughout the world-- from espresso bars in Palermo to European halls of parliament to the corporate headquarters of enormous agricultural firms. In haunting and exquisite prose she explores the Byzantine structure of the 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and other mafia clans throughout Italy -- the code they live by, the destruction they wreak, how they operate within the country and how they operate internationally. She shows how these syndicates dominate everything from nuclear waste disposal to hotel chains to the marijuana trade in Australia and cocaine trafficked throughout the world. Reski shows how figures such as Silvio Berlusconi were made by the Mafia, and how those who dared to defy its codes were broken. A searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes of the globe, The Honored Society is a journalistic tour de force.
Mafia. 100 Seiten: Reclam 100 Seiten
Petra Reski
Ikonografische Mafia-Filme wie Der Pate fesseln mit dunkler Faszination. Die Realität allerdings ist gnadenlos. Autobomben, erdrosselte Kinder, tödliche Ehrenkodizes, Wirtschaftskriminalität. Demgegenüber oft korrumpierte oder hilflose Staatsdiener, die entweder selbst Teil des Systems sind oder mit dem Leben bezahlen.
Petra Reski, Autorin vieler erfolgreicher Bücher und Reportagen über die Mafia, bündelt in diesem Band noch einmal ihr Wissen und beantwortet in Diskussionen häufig gestellte Fragen. Am Ende macht sie vor allem eins deutlich: Die Mafia ist nicht allein ein italienisches Phänomen und keineswegs so weit weg, wie wir glauben.
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