"Cosa Nostra" is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for the first time, "Cosa Nostra" reconstructs the complete history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins to the present day, from the lemon groves and sulphur mines of Sicily, to the streets of Manhattan. "Cosa Nostra" is a definitive history, rich in atmosphere, and with the narrative pace of the best detective fiction, and has been updated to make it the most vital contemporary account of the mafia ever published. The mob genre has finally grown up.

Prologue

Introduction

Men of Honour

1 The Genesis of the Mafia 1860-1876

 Sicily's Two Colours

 Dr Galati and the Lemon Garden

 Initiation

 Baron Turrisi Colonna and the "Sect"

 The Violence Industry

 "The So-Called Maffia": How the Mafia Got its Name

2 The Mafia Enters the Italian System 1876-1890

 "An Instrument of Local Government"

 The Favara Brotherhood: the Mafia in Sulphur Country

 Primitives

3 Corruption in High Places 1890-1904

 A New Breed of Politician

 The Sangiorgi Report

 The Notarbartolo Murder

4 Socialism, Fascism, Mafia 1893-1943

 Corleone

 The Man with Hair on His Heart

5 The Mafia Establishes Itself In America 1900-1941

 Joe Petrosino

 Cola Gentile's America

6 War and Rebirth 1943-1950

 Don Calo and the Rebirth of the Honoured Society

 Meet the Grecos

 The Last Bandit

7 God, Concrete, Heroin, and rosa aoslra 1950-1963

 The Early Life of Tommaso Buscetta

 The Sack of Palermo

 Joe Bananas Goes on Holiday

8 The 'First' Mafia War and its Consequences 1962-1969

 Tbe Ciaculli Bomb

 Like Chicago in the Twenties? The First Mafia War

 The Antimafia

 'A Phenomenon of Collective Criminality'

9 The Origins of Use Second Mafia War 1970--1982

 Rise of the Corleonesi: 1 - Luciano Leggio(1943-1970)

 Leonardo Vitale's Spiritual Crisis

 Death of a "Leftist Fanatic":Peppino Impastato

 Heroin: The Pizza Connection

 Bankers, Masons, Tax Collectors, Mafiosi

 Rise of the Corleonesi: 2 - Towards the Mattanza (1970-1983)

10 Terra Iniidelium 1983-1992

 The Virtuous Minority

 Eminent Corpses

 Watching the Bullfight

 Tbe Fate of the Maxi-Trial

11 Bombs and Submersion 1992-2003

 Toto Riina's Villa

 After Capaci

 'Uncle Giulio'

 Enter the Tractor

 Tbe Major-Domo and the Ad Man

12 Rlcotta Cheese and Ghosts

 A Chronicle of Cosa Nostra since the Summer of 2003

 Acknowledgements

 Picture Acknowledgements

 Bibliography

 Notes on Sources Quoted

Index