# The Mafia

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- Book: [The Mafia](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-balsamo/the-mafia) ([The Mafia.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-balsamo/the-mafia.md))
- Authors: [William Balsamo](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-balsamo), [George Carpozi, Jr.](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-carpozi-jr)
- Publisher: Virgin Books
- ISBN: 978-07-5351-820-5
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2009-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, The Mafia: The First 100 Years tells the gripping story of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisation. How did the Mob evolve from a gang of bumbling killers into the smooth-running international 'corporation' of today? Drawing on nearly two decades of research, William Balsamo - great-nephew of the original godfather - and George Carpozi Jr. reveal the Mafia's coalescence into an organisation whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic and into a presidential administration. Delving behind the headlines to uncover the true extent of the Mafia's influence, The Mafia: The First 100 Years reads like the most compelling crime fiction, yet is the terrifying, deadly truth.