The Mafia.

The Economist (US) | March 24, 1990 | Copyright

This book ends with "The Dead (a partial list)", subdivided into "Distinguished Cadavers" and "Mafia Losers". Scanning the names of judges, senior policemen, politicians, journalists and hoodlums, together with the abrupt manner of their disposal-shot, strangled, dissolved in acid, fed to pigs-the reader is left in little doubt that, although today's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise, it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world's leading multinationals. Contradict your boss in a big corporation, or fumble a marketing campaign, and you could lose ...

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