Mafia Business

This book is an account both of the old Mafia of the Godfather and of its transformation into a network of gangsters and capitalists today posing a major threat to democratic politics. The new Mafia combines large-scale business and banking activity with drug dealing political corruption and widespread violence. Powerful ruthless and rich it has convulsed Southern Italy with a spate of murders. Its victims include an MP a celebrated general judges and prosecutors policemen and ordinary citizens. It has turned itself into an entrepreneurial machine of a formidable kind enjoying advantages denied to ordinary capitalist companies.