The name of this criminal organization has long become a household name. Cosa Nostra is not just a name, in fact it is a criminal brand, the personification of secret power based on violence and bloodshed. The most brutal, most elusive, most effective criminal organization in the world is the Sicilian mafia, widely known as the Cosa Nostra. The war with the mafia, which lasted almost two hundred years, created an aura of invulnerability for this organization, but, as the events of the late 20th century showed, the mafia is still it is possible to win. How the mafia achieved its power, what it achieves and whose support it enjoys, what its plans for the future are - all this is described in the unique study of John Dickey. Many books are devoted to Cosa Nostra; however, John Dickey's work stands apart - there has never been anything like this book before. For the first time, under one cover, all the currently known information about Cosa Nostra is collected, all the details of the life of the secret criminal society of Sicily: from the mafia code of honor and rites of passage to political corruption and business interests of the mafiosi, from the methods of managing this criminal organization to the “business model”, to which it adheres. If you want to know what the Mafia was and what it lives and breathes today, get an idea of its activities over two centuries, understand how the Mafia achieved the degree of influence that it now has, then this book is for you .