Preface 1
Introduction 4
ONE The Mystique of the Mafia 7
TWO The Mafia Belongs to Sicily 23
THREE Searching for "Our Thing" 47
FouR Revision 67
FIVE Organizing Crime 83
SIX Survival of the Fittest: From Russia to the Original Sin City 120
SEVEN Globalization and Organized Criminals 148
EIGHT The Organized Crime Matrix: A Transnational System of Social Networks of Organized Criminal Activity 179
Works Cited 191
Index 201