What would you do if you had the feeling that your boss would like to get rid of you, but unfortunately in your company the usual form of dismissal is not dismissal but murder? Do you think it would be particularly wise to sell a package of rotten bonds to a Mafioso known for his brutality? Or to tell your wife who's doing your bidding on the Cosa Nostra to impress her? Federico Varese reports in his exciting book about the life and death of the Mafiosi, which he has explored as closely and privately as hardly anyone before him. The Mafia is a closed world full of violence and harshness, which no outsider can ever gain insight into. But behind the walls of silence there is a community with its own rules and values - and there is mafia life. Federico Varese has looked deep into the heart of organised crime.