The Book Review—‘The Sacco Gang’: a Mafia Chronicle

Andrea Camilleri delves once again into the world of organized crime through the story of a family that decides to challenge criminals and bear the consequences of their courageous actions.

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Novels about the world of the mafia have always intrigued and fascinated the general public, both in literature and in cinema. The figure of the mafia man, dressed in a suit and black hat, with a thin moustache and a cigar in his mouth, who spends his time shooting people, extorting money, and kidnapping, has for some reason fascinated many people, despite being one of the world’s greatest criminal scourges, second only to war.

On many occasions, this fascination has been misinterpreted or has led to the trivialization of the true nature of the mafia world, of those who, through inhuman, abusive, and criminal practices, have subjugated thousands of people throughout history, especially the Italian mafia, the subject of great films and novels of the genre.

Do not forget that they are murderers, corrupt, and capable of the worst.

It is precisely this, remembering that they are a very dark aspect of our society, that the writer Andrea Camilleri does in many of his novels…

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