Mafia

The Mafia is a criminal phenomenon that has inspired historical books, novels and movies, but is here told in a book of images containing a rare selection of over 600 photographs, newspaper pages and prints. The Mafia Worldwide, from Sicily to the United States of America and from South America to the Far East shown through places, personalities, crimes, events, trials, policemen, politicians and magistrates. From Al Capone to Joe Petrosino, from Toto Riina to the Colombian drug trafficking gang and the Hong Kong crime lords. From the turn of the century to the present day, the chronicle, written by Italian journalist Marco Gasparini, supported by a rich collection of images from Scalarchives and partners, will tell the true and ultimate illustrated story of the World Mafia. 600 illustrations