Recommendations from our site
“It’s basically a theme-by-theme account of what the Cosa Nostra is and how it works, by somebody who knew it better than anybody else. You get a sense of the man’s extraordinary lucidity and humanity in the way he describes it. He famously says that the mafia is a human creation and like all human creations it has a beginning and will have an end.” Read more...
John Dickie, Historian
“Falcone was a Sicilian judge who did a tremendous amount of effective investigative work on the Mafia, with a level of knowledge, competence and energy that had not been seen before. And although he was then ultimately assassinated by the Mafia, he did manage to shift entirely the attitude of the Italian state towards the Mafia. So while it’s sad that he was assassinated, he most certainly did not die in vain.” Read more...
The best books on The Best Books on the Sicilian Mafia
Diego Gambetta, Social Scientist
Our most recommended books
-
Men of Honour: the Truth about the Mafia
by Judge Giovanni Falcone -
The Neapolitan Quartet
by Elena Ferrante -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri -
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante -
Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime
by Federico Varese -
The Nation of the Risorgimento: Kinship, Sanctity and Honour in the Origins of Unified Italy
by Alberto Mario Banti
