Evil Life: The True Story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia

Description

As powerful today as it ever was, the Mafia's involvement in organised crime in Australia is long and deep. Despite denials by major policing organisations of its existence in this country, the key Mafia families in Australia are linked to international crime syndicates around the world. Shifting massive stashes of drugs and money through increasingly complex networks, these families have also had significant connections to law enforcement agencies and government. With powerful and uncomporomising clarity, Evil Life shows that Australia is a key part of the global drug network. It also demonstrates how cultural ties built on decades of Italian migration have been used to create modern and highly sophisticated crime syndicates. The dark side of the Italian diaspora is revealed in all its unexpected detail.

Clive Small and Tom Gilling are the authors of the bestselling Smack Express, Blood Money, Milat and Betrayed. Clive is a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, NSW. Tom Gilling is a highly regarded investigative journalist and fiction writer.

A significant historical account of the Australian 'Ndrangheta... a particularly timely account * Adelaide Advertiser * A must-read for cops, pollies and anyone with an interest in true crime... Compulsory reading... An invaluable work of social history. * Crikey * This groundbreaking and authoritative history of Australia's oldest and most durable criminal organisation will also be avidly read in Italy, where there has been enormous recent interest in the Australian branch of a global criminal franchise about which little has hitherto been known. * Weekend Australian * This is a meticulously detailed account of what the Italian organised crime gang has been up to Down Under... It is a gripping true-crime read * Townsville Eye *