Boss of Bosses
How One Man Saved the Sicilian Mafia
$29.26
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2009
Summary
Bernardo Provenzano, head of the Sicilian mafia, is Italy’s most notorious criminal. But despite apparent sightings all over Europe, for 43 years he eluded the police. Until, on 11 April 2006, a crack police team broke into a tiny shepherd’s hut in the mountains above Corleone. At last they were able to capture Provenzano, just a few miles from his home.
A master of reinvention, he has been known variously as the Tractor, the Accountant, Uncle Bernie and even the Axe Man. He took over…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719568596 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719568595 |
| Author: | Clare Longrigg |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 271g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
| Series: | John Murray |
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Perceptive … Longrigg traces Provenzano’s rise from stealing barrels of pecorino cheese in Corleone in the 1950s to the top of Cosa Nostra - New Statesman
Fascinating … Longrigg avoids the usual pitfalls Mafia chroniclers are susceptible to - London LiteIn this thrilling history … (Longrigg) meticulously traces the career of the man known as “the Accountant” - Sunday TimesAuthoritative and absorbing - GuardianLongrigg treats her subject seriously, a relief from the melodrama that dangerously trivialises so much Mafia literature - Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
Clare Longrigg
Clare Longrigg was born in England in 1963. She is a journalist, who has worked on the Guardian and the Independent. She has written widely about the Italian mafia and published two books, Mafia Women, based on the stories of women in Italian organised crime, and No Questions Asked, about women in the US Cosa Nostra. She lives in London.
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