Judge Giovanni Falcone, who led the war against the Mafia in Italy, was assassinated with his wife and three bodyguards in a car-bomb explosion in May 1992 - just as he was to be given powers to investigate the organization nationally. Written the previous year, this is his account of the Mafia - a ruthless "state within a state". Falcone was born and grew up in Palermo, nerve-centre of the Sicilian Mafia. From his shared background with many mafiosi, he possessed detailed knowledge of their mentality and methods. He knew, too, that sooner or later he was likely to meet his own death at their hands when his knowledge grew too threatening.
- ISBN10 0751503940
- ISBN13 9780751503944
- Publish Date 22 July 1993 (first published 7 September 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 172
- Language English