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Traces the development of the world's largest international crime syndicate and examines its control of the illegal drug trade
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Four years of exhaustive research in police records, court documents, and other archives has convinced Sterling, author of Terror Network ( LJ 3/15/81), that the Mafia operates a massive conspiracy which moves quantities of drugs and money anywhere with impunity. This control of the world heroin trade started, Sterling says, when leaders of the Sicilian Mafia and five U.S. "families" met at Palermo in 1957 to establish their network of refineries and distributors. The U.S.'s current heroin problem results from the families' deliberate increase in the supply available, Sterling says, and she sharply criticizes the police in many countries for their failure to take the Mafia threat seriously, to pursue leads with satisfactory vigor, to look for past patterns in their own files, or to share current information across borders. Thought-provoking and well-done.
-Marcia L. Sprules, Council on Foreign Relations Lib., New York
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-Marcia L. Sprules, Council on Foreign Relations Lib., New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
At a 1957 gangland summit meeting in Palermo, American mobsters gave the drug franchise to the Sicilian Mafia, which now controls a multinational drug cartel and much of U.S. heroin and cocaine traffic. PW described this as "an important contribution to our understanding of world crime." Photos. Author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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