The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini came close to destroying them. It looks at the Mafia in their homeland – how in attempting to preserve Sicily for the Sicilians in the face of countless invasions it infiltrated every aspect of the island’s life, corrupting landowners, the police, the judiciary and even the church. In one chilling chapter Norman Lewis details the escapades of eighty-year-old Padre Camelo, who led his monks on sprees of murder and extortion, frequently using the confessional box for transmitting threats.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 270 ● ISBN 9781906011963 ● 文件大小 0.6 MB ● 出版者 Eland Publishing ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2011 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2429806 ● 复制保护 社会DRM