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MAFIA BROTHERHOODS is the new history of Italian organized crime by the author of the international bestseller COSA NOSTRA. Although the Cosa Nostra has attracted the most attention abroad, it is far from being Italy's only criminal fraternity. There are two other mafias that are even more powerful and dangerous: the Camorra, from Naples, and the 'Ndrangheta, from Calabria. Each of these 'brotherhoods' has its own methods, its own dark rituals, its own style of ferocity and corruption. MAFIA BROTHERHOODS blends archival sleuthing, vivid story-telling and shrewd historical analysis to tell the complete story of Italy's 'criminal ecosystem'.

Note biographique

John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. Hodder & Stoughton published his Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia in 2004, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller, with over 20 translations, and won the CWA Dagger Award for Non-fiction that year. Since then he has published Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007) - now a six-part TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. His most recent books are Mafia Brotherhoods (2011) and Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse (2013).

In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.

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