BOSS OF BOSSES
Bernardo Provenzano, head of the Sicilian mafia, is Italy's most notorious criminal. But despite apparent sightings all over Europe, for forty-three years he slipped through the grasp of the police. Until, on 11 April 2006, a crack police team broke into a tiny shepherd's hut in the mountains above Corleone. At last they were able to capture Provenzano, just a few miles from his home.
A master of reinvention, he has been known variously as 'the Tractor', 'the Accountant', 'Uncle Bernie' and even 'the Axe Man'. He took over Cosa Nostra when it was on its knees, after the carnage of an all-out war with the state, and went on to restore its power by taking the mafia underground and infiltrating business, law enforcement and politics at the highest levels.
In prison his human side emerged once more: his sole request was to marry his devoted companion, Saveria, who had stood by him through his years on the run. Provenzano's story is one of passion and betrayal, told by the investigators who tracked him down, the spies who worked for him, the officers who arrested him and his allies at the heart of Cosa Nostra.
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