Alex Perry

The Good Mothers

The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia

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Produktbeschreibung

You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omertà is how the 'Ndrangheta became the worldâ s most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is the story of the women who broke the silence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK / William Collins
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 165157
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780008222130
• ISBN-10: 0008222134
• Artikelnr.: 54346924

Autorenporträt

Alex Perry is a correspondent, author and writer for television and film. Author of Falling Off the Edge, Lifeblood and The Rift, Perry lived and worked for fifteen years in Asia and Africa, specialising in investigations into conflict, corruption and organised crime for TIME, Newsweek and others. Perry now lives in Hampshire, England.

Rezensionen

'Perry has ably pieced together a number of remarkable stories. His focus ... [in his] fast-moving book ... is on the women who, sickened by years of abuse and bullying, decided that they would take no more' Caroline Moorehead, Times Literary Supplement

'The highly compelling story of the women who dared to break omertà, the Mafia code of silence. In fully developing his subjects, Perry shows remarkable empathy for their plights. An impossible-to-put-down page-turner' Kirkus

'The painful and dangerous process of these women's rebellion against the family makes a gripping and heart-breaking narrative' Clare Longrigg, Observer

'Both harrowing and heartening ... and told with Alex Perry's usual verve' Tom Burgis, Financial Times

'A brilliant read' Devika Bhat, The Times

'This is something special' Nicholas Schmidle, New Yorker

'One female prosecutor in Italy believed that she could recruit mistreated, abused, and discarded Mafia women could help bring down the organization. She was right. This story is bananas' Lauren Katzenberg, New York Times