Description: Here, Lewis brilliantly dissects the Sicilian Mafia, past and present, combining history, sociology, suspense, horror, and superb travel writing. Among others, meets an eighty-year old priest who led his monks on escapades of murder and extortion.
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Review Quotes:
'The Mafia observed by one of the great travel writers of our time.' Eric Newby, The Observer
'This book has not a dull moment in it; it is indeed imbued with that quality of "terribilita" which Giuliano himself was said to possess.' The Spectator
'every page is horribly absorbing.' The Times