Le grand réveil des mafias

No one yet knows who will lose the post 9-11 terrorist war, but many are beginning to realise that the war already has its victors: organised crime, better known as the Mafia. The reality of this thriving worldwide enterprise is hard to accept since the media have been trying to sell us the idea that "the Mafia is dying", "the Mafia is on its last leg". Nothing could be further from the truth. The object of this book is to denounce this absurd media consensus, to demonstrate how lucrative the Mafia business really is and how they have been able to thrive so well amidst such worldwide political instability. For not only have they made considerable advancements during the historical "parenthesis"between 1989 and 2001, (the fall of the Berlin wall and the attack on the WTC), but they have grown even more so since, in such areas as port and dock racketeering, infiltrating Wall Street and pirating public markets. > This striking exposé on the world's Mafiosi, clearly demonstrates that these criminal organisations pose an urgent and serious threat to the international community. Xavier Raufer is a professor of criminology at the Sorbonne in Paris as well as an expert on terrorism and geopolitics. His previous book, La guerre ne fait que commencer, was published with Lattès in 2001.