Organized crime

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  • London Falling

    London Falling

    ★ STAFF PICK!
    Selected by Mia
    £22.00

    Staff Pick!

    Mia Says…

    Could not put this down. A mesmerising and thrilling glimpse of a city that I didn’t know existed. A rage-inducing account of billionaires in the shadows of London, all told along the thread of one absolutely astonishing and chilling story of a teenage boy caught up in an unbelieavable web of lies. Patrick Radden Keefe is an extraordinary storyteller.

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    From the bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.

  • Mafia

    £25.00

    This major new book explores how mafias dramatically affected governments, economies and cultures across the globe – it reveals a shadow history of the world.

  • A Sicilian Man

    £25.00

    In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The maxi-processo saw 471 men and 4 women take the stand, accused of kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and many thousands of murders. Sitting in the galley was Leonardo Sciascia. One of the greatest European writers of the twentieth century, he had published the first Mafia novel, ‘The Day of the Owl’, and was widely seen by Italians as a true moral figure in a country where corruption had seeped into every corner of public and private life. This is the story of Sciascia’s life against the rise of the Mafia and the devastating struggle that ensued for Italy’s soul.

  • Everybody Loves Our Dollars

    £25.00

    Without the existence of money laundering, few crimes of acquisition would be worth the trouble. South America’s drug cartels would be stuffed without it, as would Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, American tax evaders and a whole bestiary of human (and animal) traffickers the world over. And yet, estimates of the dirty portion of world GDP have held steady at 2%-5% for decades. All efforts at legislation, diplomacy, prosecution and compliance have been a complete flop. It’s not a lack of will to stamp it out. It’s a lack of insight. So join investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a perspective-altering adventure through the flipside of the global economy.

  • The snakehead

    £10.99

    The sweeping history of the American dream, Manhattan’s Chinatown underbelly, and the grandma mastermind behind one of the largest human smuggling rings.