The Honored Society

Author : Petra Reski
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589697
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honored Society written by Petra Reski and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time. In The Honored Society award-winning investigative reporter Petra Reski reveals the Mafia menace lurking throughout the world-- from espresso bars in Palermo to European halls of parliament to the corporate headquarters of enormous agricultural firms. In haunting and exquisite prose she explores the Byzantine structure of the 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and other mafia clans throughout Italy -- the code they live by, the destruction they wreak, how they operate within the country and how they operate internationally. She shows how these syndicates dominate everything from nuclear waste disposal to hotel chains to the marijuana trade in Australia and cocaine trafficked throughout the world. Reski shows how figures such as Silvio Berlusconi were made by the Mafia, and how those who dared to defy its codes were broken. A searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes of the globe, The Honored Society is a journalistic tour de force.

Author : Adrian Piccolo
Publisher : Adrian Piccolo
ISBN 13 : 1738982203
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honored Society written by Adrian Piccolo and published by Adrian Piccolo. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2031. A new drug has hit the black market, one more potent and powerful than any other. The men behind it will stop at nothing to get what they want, the American underworld and everything in it. While being investigated by top-level law enforcement officials, a criminal mastermind unleashes a devious plot that will shake the very foundations of justice. After orchestrating a violent massacre that takes place in multiple cities across the continent, over one hundred criminal’s deaths will give rise to a new generation. This new generation is more ruthless and intelligent than any other before them. After murdering their way to the top of the New York underworld, they flood the streets with the new drug, Orion. Santo Luciano, as new Boss of Bosses in the American Mafia, strikes deals and bargains with notorious illegal organizations in order to supply Orion on a worldwide scale. Using information given to him by a mole in Federal law enforcement, Santo implements a plan that will distract his enemies while he achieves his true goals. After transforming the Mafia into an international narcotics consortium, he reveals a hidden motivation, revenge.

Author : Norman Lewis
Publisher : HP Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honoured Society written by Norman Lewis and published by HP Trade. This book was released on 1984 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 preist who led his monks on escapades of murder and extortion.

Author : Norman Lewis
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honoured Society written by Norman Lewis and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the best book on the Mafia in Sicily - its origins, its code of honour, its secrecy and its brutality. A chilling insight. - reveals how Mafia violence and corruption crept even into every aspect of Sicilian society, including the police and the church - and how this was only possible with the help of the American army, who gave the Mafia, by then all but destroyed by the Fascist government, the kiss of life when they occupied the island in 1943 - the perfect companion for any traveller to Sicily, and a gripping armchair read

Author : Michael Gambino
Publisher : Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 9780743442794
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honored Society written by Michael Gambino and published by Beyond Words/Atria Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this blistering and revelatory crime epic, Michael Gambino, grandson of the original "Godfather, " aims for the gut and catapults readers straight into the heart of the Mafia--a world he knows better than anybody.

Author : Petra Reski
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589735
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honored Society written by Petra Reski and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning investigative journalist explores the history of the most notorious crime families in Italy, including 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra, and describes how these syndicates live, the damage they do and their power that reaches around the world.

Author : Norman Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907871903
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honoured Society written by Norman Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lincoln's Inn (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: 1845-1914 written by Lincoln's Inn (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman Lewis
Publisher : New York : Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honored Society written by Norman Lewis and published by New York : Putnam. This book was released on 1964 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yasuhito Kinoshita
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520911784
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refuge of the Honored written by Yasuhito Kinoshita and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan—the planned retirement community. In the mid-1980s, Yasuhito Kinoshita spent a year living in Japan's first such community, Fuji-no-Sato. His collaboration with Christie W. Kiefer, a cultural gerontologist, is the first detailed study of a retirement community in a non-Western culture. Fuji-no-Sato is a social community with no visible traditions. Kinoshita and Kiefer show that its residents' preference for long-established relationships creates the need for the invention of relationships that have no precedent in Japanese society. This book reveals much about Japanese culture, and about the "graying of society" that plagues the newly industrialized countries of Asia. Its lessons about sensitivity to the elderly's values and the need for clear communication have important applications in other cultures as well.