See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organised Crime

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A century before the emergence of its cousin, the Sicilian mafia, the criminal organisation known as 'The Camorra' was establishing a deadly grip on Naples and Southern Italy. Its influence today is as strong as ever. This account of the organisation and its shadowy leaders reveals a crime syndicate of extraordinary power and resources: it involves the major political parties, along with the police, judiciary, administrators and leading figures in the business community.

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'Very well-researched... excellent' - Vincenzo Ruggiero, THES; 'Lively and readable... honest and interesting' - Mark Galeotti, Modern Italy; 'Excellent, an exciting read' - Carl Levy; 'Tom Behan convincingly shows that all levels of the Italian state, including the judiciary are sufficiently corrupt and in hock to the Camorra as to make all reformist solutions bankrupt' - Socialist Review

Author Bio

Tom Behan, who died in August 2010 aged 53, was an expert on Italian organised crime. He was a lecturer in Italian at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and wrote numerous books, including 'Defiance: The Story of One Man Who Stood Up to the Sicilian Mafia' (I.B.Tauris).