The Honoured Society: My Journey to the Heart of the Mafia

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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Foreword; Marcello Fava; Rosaria Schifani; San Luca; Don Pino; Letizia; Padre Frittitta; Corleone; Palace of Poison; Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri; Anna Palma; Heinz Sprenger; Mafia Women; Carla Madonia; Rosalba Di Gregorio; Carmine Sarno; Messina Denaro; Dramatis Personæ; Note on The Author.;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 -