Omerta

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Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honour for centuries Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a century of change, but now at the century's end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age Honour may be silent - but money talks New York - a mob boss is assassinated and no one will talk His nephew and the head of the city's FBI both launch investigations into the murder But silence spreads like a contagion: the silence of rival gangs, the silence of crooked bankers; even the silence of the courts However, the world of the Mafia is one without integrity, and riven with greed And when money starts to talk