Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy & America The Mafia: The First 100 Years" tells the gripping story of the most mythical & misunderstood criminal organisation. How did the Mob evolve from a gang of bumbling killers into the smooth-running international 'corporation' of today? Drawing on nearly two decades of research William Balsamo
- great-nephew of the original godfather
- & George Carpozi Jr. reveal the Mafia's coalescence into an organisation whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic & into a presidential administration. Delving behind the headlines to uncover the true extent of the Mafia's influence " The Mafia: The First 100 Years" reads like the most compelling crime fiction yet is the terrifying deadly truth."