Boss of Bosses

How One Man Saved the Sicilian Mafia

Clare Longrigg

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Hodder & Stoughton
01 September 2009

Biography; True crime

Bernado Provenzano, head of the Sicilian mafia, is Italy's most notorious criminal. But despite apparent sightings all over Europe, for 43 years he eluded the police. Until, on 11 April 2006, a crack police team broke into a tiny shepherd's hut in the mountains above Corleone. At last they were able to capture Provenzano, just a few miles from his home.

A master of reinvention, he has been known variously as the Tractor, the Accountant, Uncle Bernie and even the Axe Man. He took over Cosa Nostra when it was on its knees, after the carnage of an all-out war with the state, and restored its power by going underground and infiltrating business, law and politics at the highest levels. In prison his human side emerged when his sole request was to marry his devoted companion, Saveria, who stood by him through years on the run.

Provenzano's story is one of passion and betrayal, told by the investigators who tracked him down, the spies who worked for him, the officers who arrested him and his consigliere at the heart of Cosa Nostra.

By: Clare Longrigg
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780719568596
ISBN 10: 0719568595
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 September 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clare Longrigg was born in England in 1963. She is a journalist, who has worked on the Guardian and the Independent. She has written widely about the Italian mafia and published two books, Mafia Women, based on the stories of women in Italian organised crime, and No Questions Asked, about women in the US Cosa Nostra. She lives in London.

Reviews for Boss of Bosses: How One Man Saved the Sicilian Mafia

'Perceptive ... Longrigg traces Provenzano's rise from stealing barrels of pecorino cheese in Corleone in the 1950s to the top of Cosa Nostra' New Statesman 'Fascinating ... Longrigg avoids the usual pitfalls Mafia chroniclers are susceptible to' London Lite 'In this thrilling history ... (Longrigg) meticulously traces the career of the man known as the Accountant ' Sunday Times 'Authoritative and absorbing' Guardian Longrigg treats her subject seriously, a relief from the melodrama that dangerously trivialises so much Mafia literature Sunday Telegraph