Antonio Nicaso
is an award-winning journalist, a bestselling author and an internationally recognized expert on organized crime. He has written several books on the subject and is best known for having published, for the first time, the "Mafia's Code
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His books have been translated in six languages.
He has been a key speaker at various symposia in Canada, the United States, Italy, France, South Africa and Australia.
He sits on the Advisory Board of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, at York University (Toronto), and on the Governing Council of The Alliance Against Contraband in Geneva, Switzerland.
Frequently quoted by the media, Nicaso has been interviewed by print and broadcast journalists around the world as a Mafia expert. Also he is a regular commentator on OMNI News (Every Friday 8:45 pm).
Highlights from his list of publications include:
Alle origini della 'ndrangheta: la picciotteria
(1990);
Gli usurpatori e gli usurpati
(1990);
Deadly Silence: Canadian Mafia Murders
(1993);
'Ndranghete: le filiali della mafia calabrese
(1994);
Io e la mafia: le verità di Giulio Andreotti
(1995);
Global Mafia: The New World Order of Organized Crime
(1995), which has been translated in French (Dans les coulisses du crime organisé: le rôle stratégique du Canada à l'aube du 21e siècle, 1996), Dutch (De wereldwijde maffia: de nieuwe wereldorde van de georganiseerde misdaad, 1996), Hungarian (A maffia: A szervezett bûnözés új világrendszere, 1997), and Indonesian (Mafia Global: sebuah ekspose mega-kejahatan masa kini).
Bloodlines: the rise and the fall of the Mafia's Royal Family
(2001), which has been translated in French (Les liens du sang: l'apogée et la chute d'une grande famille de la mafia, 2001);
Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada's Most Notorious Bootlegger
(2004) which has been translated in Italian (Il Piccolo Gatsby, 2006;
Angels, Mobsters and Narco-Terrorists: The Rising Menace of Global Criminal Empires
(2005), which has been translated in French (Trafic de drogue, 2006),
Fratelli di sangue
(co-authored with Italian magistrate Nicola Gratteri, 2006),
Senza Onore
, antologia di testi letterari sulla 'ndrangheta (2007),
'Ndrangheta: Le radici dell'odio
(2007),
Il Grande Inganno: I disvalori della 'ndrangheta
(with Nicola Gratteri and Michele Borrelli, 2008),
Fratelli di sangue
, storie, boss e affari della 'ndrangheta, la mafia piu' potente del mondo (with Nicola Gratteri, 2009).
Nicaso is also a contributing author to the following volumes: Utopia e rivoluzione in Calabria: scritti in onore di Enzo Misefari (1993),
Un'altra Calabria: lo sviluppo della regione nelle idee dei calabresi della diaspora (1997), Organized Crime & Money Laundering: The Globalization Revolution - A Business Reference for the 'New Economy'
(2001),
La scuola Italiana di Middlebury (1996-2005) -
(2005) and
Chromosomes,
a project by David Cronemberg (2008)