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Perry Alex
Perry Alex - The Good Mothers The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World's Most Powerful Mafia - Paperback
Perry Alex - The Good Mothers The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World's Most Powerful Mafia - Paperback
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Description: NOW A Major TV Series The electrifying untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias and how they risked everything to bring it down. The Calabrian Mafia known as the Ndrangheta is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe manages billion - dollar extortion rackets brokers illegal arms deals supplying weapons to criminals and terrorists and plunders the treasuries of both Italy and the European Union. The Ndrangheta's power derives from a macho mix of violence and silence omert . Yet it endures because of family ties: you are born into the syndicate or you marry in. Loyalty is absolute. Bloodshed is revered. You go to prison or your grave and kill your own father brother sister or mother in cold blood before you betray The Family. Accompanying the Ndrangheta's reverence for tradition and history is a violent misogyny among its men. Women are viewed as chattel bargaining chips for building and maintaining clan alliances and beatings and worse are routine. In 2009, after one abused Ndrangheta wife was murdered for turning state's evidence prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti considered a tantalizing possibility: that the Ndrangheta's sexism might be its greatest flaw and her most effective weapon. Approaching two more mafia wives Alessandra persuaded them to testify in return for a new future for themselves and their children. A feminist saga of true crime and justice The Good Mothers is the riveting story of a high - stakes battle pitting a brilliant driven woman fighting to save a nation against ruthless mafiosi fighting for their existence. Caught in the middle are three women fighting for their children and their lives. Not all will survive.
Title: The Good Mothers The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World's Most Powerful Mafia
Author(s): Perry Alex
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062655615
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/20/2019
Description: NOW A Major TV Series The electrifying untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias and how they risked everything to bring it down. The Calabrian Mafia known as the Ndrangheta is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe manages billion - dollar extortion rackets brokers illegal arms deals supplying weapons to criminals and terrorists and plunders the treasuries of both Italy and the European Union. The Ndrangheta's power derives from a macho mix of violence and silence omert . Yet it endures because of family ties: you are born into the syndicate or you marry in. Loyalty is absolute. Bloodshed is revered. You go to prison or your grave and kill your own father brother sister or mother in cold blood before you betray The Family. Accompanying the Ndrangheta's reverence for tradition and history is a violent misogyny among its men. Women are viewed as chattel bargaining chips for building and maintaining clan alliances and beatings and worse are routine. In 2009, after one abused Ndrangheta wife was murdered for turning state's evidence prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti considered a tantalizing possibility: that the Ndrangheta's sexism might be its greatest flaw and her most effective weapon. Approaching two more mafia wives Alessandra persuaded them to testify in return for a new future for themselves and their children. A feminist saga of true crime and justice The Good Mothers is the riveting story of a high - stakes battle pitting a brilliant driven woman fighting to save a nation against ruthless mafiosi fighting for their existence. Caught in the middle are three women fighting for their children and their lives. Not all will survive.
Title: The Good Mothers The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World's Most Powerful Mafia
Author(s): Perry Alex
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062655615
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/20/2019