Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on choose from the. The authors provide an exhaustive analysis of the historic events in an interesting manner. The Sicilian Mafia has, for a long time in history, conducted operations in their stronghold areas. By the 1890s, the mafia conducted assassinations from their Sicilian capital base (Dickie 15). The extent of bank fraud executed by the Sicilian Mafiosi in connection with well established officials remains among the most touching occurrences in history. All the negative and inhuman actions and operations of the Sicilian mafia remained unknown to a majority of the society members. The public knowledge of the criminal group remained hidden to a number of society members. The massive extent of robbery of public funds from local governments remained unknown to many members of the society. In the Sicilian countryside, the mafia remained referred to as an uncivilized notion of honor granted to a section of the society by primitive people in the society. Nostra and Dickie provide an expounding and outstanding description of the happenings in the underworld operations of the Sicilian mafia in their historical masterpiece. The book, written in after the Second World War, provides an explicit analysis of the connections that aid the operations in the underworld crime organizations.