Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian MafiaA shocking expose of how the Sicilian Mafia uses financial influence and ruthless violence to control the international narcotics trade. "The most definitive work yet published on the transformation of the old bootlegging and gambling Mafia into a multinational conglomerate".--The Washington Times. |
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Luciano. Leggio,. the. Winner. Corleone, a huddle of rooftops surrounding the
stony outcrop of an abandoned prison, might be any of a hundred dreary hill
towns in Sicily. Fame once singled it out for the inordinate number of Mafia
murders ...
Luciano. Leggio,. the. Winner. Corleone, a huddle of rooftops surrounding the
stony outcrop of an abandoned prison, might be any of a hundred dreary hill
towns in Sicily. Fame once singled it out for the inordinate number of Mafia
murders ...
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Luciano Leggio was born in Corleone on a winter's morning in 1925. The tenth
child of a penniless and illiterate peasant family, he arrived unnoticed. No hint of
his conspicuous talents appeared until his nineteenth year, when he killed an ...
Luciano Leggio was born in Corleone on a winter's morning in 1925. The tenth
child of a penniless and illiterate peasant family, he arrived unnoticed. No hint of
his conspicuous talents appeared until his nineteenth year, when he killed an ...
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As it happened, Luciano went on, "the Army appointed Charlie Poletti, who was
one of our good friends, as the Military Governor in Italy. ... So it was that the
young Luciano Leggio earned the first dishonest dollar of his richly rewarding
career.
As it happened, Luciano went on, "the Army appointed Charlie Poletti, who was
one of our good friends, as the Military Governor in Italy. ... So it was that the
young Luciano Leggio earned the first dishonest dollar of his richly rewarding
career.
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| Titolo | Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia |
| Autore | Claire Sterling |
| Edizione | ristampa |
| Editore | Simon & Schuster, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0671734024, 9780671734022 |
| Lunghezza | 384 pagine |
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