From humble post-war origins in the dismal town of Corleone, the
clan manipulated Cosa Nostra's code of honour to deceive and bludgeon
its way to the summit of the secret brotherhood, launching an
unprecedented purge of its rivals and a terrorist campaign which
decimated anti-mafia judges, police and politicians.
Investigative journalist John Follain focuses on the three
godfathers who headed the clan from the 1950s onwards - their lives
and crimes, their loves and hates, and the state's sporadic efforts to
hunt them. Luciano 'The Professor' Leggio, Salvatore 'The Beast' Riina
and Bernardo 'The Tractor' Provenzano, who was on the run for a record
43 years, forged a vicious clan bent on the subversion of democracy.
Cutting through the romantic aura of Hollywood films, THE LAST
GODFATHERS portrays the true face of the crime family which inspired
Mario Puzo to write The Godfather. Based on thousands of pages
of judicial documents, wiretap transcripts, the testimony of mafiosi
defectors and interviews with investigators, this is the definitive
word on the world's most notorious criminal organisation.
