January 15, 1993. The arrest of Cosa Nostra’s ‘superboss,’ Salvatore Riina, after twenty-three years, prompts a prison visit from his childhood friend, Biagio Schiarò, and with it, a flood of memories. It is 1943. A thirteen-year-old Riina …

The entire Corleone family – Luciano Leggio, Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella, and Luciano Maino – is assembling in Palermo for a meeting with Salvatore La Barbera and Vito Ciancimino. Separately, Toto pursues Ninetta Bag…

Biagio and Teresa had recently welcomed a child, a son named Antonio. Elsewhere, in Palermo, Riina was with his associates, posing as soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza within the offices of Michael Cavataio. The group included Toto Riina, …

Biagio Schiro and Commissioner Boris Giuliano were traveling to Palermo Airport, intending to intercept the French chemists who had arrived with the purpose of instructing the Bontade clan in drug processing. At the eleventh hour, however, …

Toto Riina's patience frayed as Pio La Torre, a Communist deputy, stood in opposition to the planned construction of a military base in Comiso. In Palermo, retired Commissioner Mangano advised magistrates determined to dismantle the Mafia t…

Biagio Schiro remains hospitalized, recuperating from the wounds sustained in the shooting. Toto Riina, though serving a life sentence, maintains hope for its reversal in the appellate court. A new chief judge is slated to head the Palermo …