Book description
Mafialand is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller
spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an
elaborate Mafia plan to 'invade' Europe using 1960s London as a bridgehead.
The capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also a world of
gambling, guns and gangsters. Several veterans of the era are
astonished that they survived it and some feel protected enough - now
that most of the killers are themselves dead - to reveal to
bestselling author Douglas Thompson the details and secrets of one of
history's greatest criminal conspiracies, and of how world-champion
boxer Freddie Mills really died.
Mafia
land (previously published as Shadowland) recounts
events from the viewpoint of the pawns as well as the kingmakers.
Brutal, terrifying and intrigue-packed, it is an account of the Mob's
Machiavellian global manipulation of governments and officials. All
the big players of Mob history are here, controlled by the gangster
genius Meyer Lansky, but so are the hit men, the fixers, the hoodlums
and the wiseguys.
Douglas Thompson is the author of more than 20 books. A biographer,
broadcaster and international journalist, he is a regular contributor to
major newspapers and magazines worldwide. He divides his time between a
medieval English village and California, where he was based as a Fleet
Street foreign correspondent and columnist for more than 20 years.
