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100	1		_aMcLaren, Colin _eauthor _9119380
245	1	0	_aMafioso _bThe bloody and compelling history of the Mafia - from its birth in Italy to its invasion of America and present-day global infiltration - told by an Australian undercover insider
264		1	_aAustralia : _bHachette Australia, _c2022.
300			_a336 pages:
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337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aDue to be published February 2022.
520			_aAUSTRALIAN. The Mafia remains a subject of fascination around the world, depicted in books, films and TV series. But in his role as an undercover drug squad cop, Colin McLaren (bestselling author of JFK: The Smoking Gun) actually became a mafioso. After McLaren's extraordinary three years undercover in the Mafia, gathering the evidence to shut down a cell of 20 criminals, and following death threats, he travelled to Italy - into the lion's den - on an extraordinary mission in search of the very roots of the Mafia, seeking to understand its treacherous hold on criminal activity and the popular imagination. This is the story of how the earliest Mafia aided politicians to invade Sicily, and how the mints and banks of Italy were looted and billions stolen. How ocean liners were used to smuggle Mafia into New York City, to establish the infamous Five Families.
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