Author: James Cockayne
ISBN No: 9781849046350
Review date: 16/12/2025
No of pages: 448
Publisher: Hurst
Publisher URL:
http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/hidden-power/
Year of publication: 02/09/2016
Brief:
Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime by James Cockayne
price
£16.99
Criminal mafias determine political outcomes to suit their own agendas. A new book explores how they do it – by influencing elections, changing constitutions, fomenting terrorism, waging war, negotiating peace deals and working behind the scenes in pivotal historical moments such as the Allied invasion and occupation of Italy, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne (read more on his personal website) reveals a century of forgotten political-criminal collaboration in New York, Sicily and the Caribbean and explains how such links persist globally, from the drug wars in Mexico, to smuggling routes in West Africa, to political instability in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia.
Published by Hurst: http://www.hurstpublishers.com.
Visit http://www.jamescockayne.com/hidden-power.
