John Dickie

Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS explores the terrifying consequences of the rise of the Italian mafias.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Sceptre
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781444726411
• ISBN-10: 1444726412
• Artikelnr.: 37749592

Autorenporträt

John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. In 2004 he published Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, 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), which was made into a TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. He is also the author of 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.

Rezensionen

John Dickie combines narrative skills in his description of skulduggery with excellent pen portraits of striking individuals...no one anywhere writes with such authority on Italy's criminal gangs. Times Literary Supplement