Beschreibung
In seinem neuen Buch beschreibt John Dickie die Entstehungsgeschichten der drei großen kriminellen Vereinigungen Italiens: der sizilianischen Mafia, der Camorra aus Neapel und der kalabrischen Ndrangheta. Ein brillant recherchiertes Buch, das sich spannend wie ein Krimi liest. The author of the bestselling "Cosa Nostra" explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy. Social history and hair-raising true crime.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.
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Autorenportrait
John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. Hodder & Stoughton published his Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia in 2004, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller, with over 20 translations, and won the CWA Dagger Award for Non-fiction that year. Since then he has published Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007) - now a six-part TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. His most recent books are Mafia Brotherhoods (2011) and Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse (2013).
In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.
