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When an Italian assassin's body is found floating in a barrel in Victorian London's East End, enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn are called in to investigate. Soon corpses begin to appear all over London, each accompanied by a Mafia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the vendettas of rival Italian syndicates - and it is no longer clear who is a friend or foe.

Aprile 1980. Stella lascia Basilea, dove lavora all'Università, e parte all'improvviso per Piana degli Albanesi, in provincia di Palermo. Appena arrivata, fa amicizia con Eva, Ditria e Vito. Ma forse non è la prima volta che li incontra. Forse doveva tornare in quella terra per scoprire l'origine degli incubi che la tormentano. Anche George, "u miricanu", arriva a Palermo dagli Stati Uniti.

Charlie and Margaret discover the dark side of Hollywood in this sequel to New York Times bestseller The Hellfire Club—a thrilling cocktail of corruption and ambition from CNN's Jake Tapper. Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled...

Die Mafia - ein Unterwelt-Phänomen, eine Organisation des professionellen Verbrechens -, für derart banale Formen der Kriminologie pflegt ein Professor van Dusen sich bekanntlich nicht zu interessieren", gab eben dieser noch hochnäsig von sich, bevor ihn äußere Umstände zu einem Meinungsumschwung bewegten. In der 35. Straße werden van Dusen und Hutchinson Hatch in eine Kutsche gezerrt und in das Quartier des ermordeten Mafia-Bosses Pasquale Malavita verschleppt.