Edited by Sergio Killuminati
The Consigliere
Three books on how the Family does business, counts its money and talks to people.
Free to read, in full, in English, Italian and Russian.
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Money, the Family Way
The first lineIn the America of the 1850s a steam boiler blew up almost every four days.
Money,the Family WayEdited bySergio Killuminati
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Words, the Family Way
The first lineJudge Giovanni Falcone knew more about Cosa Nostra than any investigator in Italy.
Words,the Family WayEdited bySergio KilluminatiWhere it all began
Business, the Family Way
Why the Consigliere Never Went to Harvard
People often asked me where I studied. They asked in different ways: bankers politely, investigators with interest, young men from good families with badly hidden pity. I always told the truth. At Don Vincenzo Carmuso’s kitchen table, forty years, no weekends, no holidays.
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How They Broke the Machine
In the America of the 1850s a steam boiler blew up almost every four days. Boilers sat in factories, in mills, on riverboats, and every one of them was a little bomb with a pressure gauge.
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What He Walks In With
Judge Giovanni Falcone knew more about Cosa Nostra than any investigator in Italy. Files, nicknames, photographs. Who was married to whom, who had done time with whom. He was missing one thing. The language.
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13 chapters
Chapter 1The Business
Chapter 2Reputation
Chapter 3The Offer
Chapter 4Keeping Your Word
Chapter 5Counting the Money
Chapter 6Inside People's Heads
Chapter 7Be Your Own Don
Chapter 8The Way Up
Chapter 9The Family's People
Chapter 10A Crew of Your Own
Chapter 11The Machine
Chapter 12Taking It Apart
Chapter 13Fine-TuningContents →Money, the Family Way
23 chapters
Chapter 1The Invention of Protection
Chapter 2The First Families with a Charter
Chapter 3The Capo Who Steals from the Don
Chapter 4Selling a Stake in the Family
Chapter 5A Cut of the Profits
Chapter 6Who Keeps the Market Going
Chapter 7Houses and Neighbourhoods
Chapter 8The Mutual Aid Fund
Chapter 9The Bookie Always Wins
Chapter 10The Vig
Chapter 11The Bookkeeper's Arithmetic
Chapter 12Fear and Greed
Chapter 13Don't Keep It All in One Cellar
Chapter 14A Market That's Hard to Buy
Chapter 15Who Knows First
Chapter 16The Don of Dons
Chapter 17Against the Crowd
Chapter 18Who Gets the Family's Money
Chapter 19A Deal on the Harvest
Chapter 20The Right, Not the Duty
Chapter 21A Family Fund for a Hundred Years
Chapter 22Traps in the Gambler's Head
Chapter 23The Old Dons of the MarketContents →Words, the Family Way
36 chapters
Chapter 1What He Walks In With
Chapter 2Match the Work, Not the Gestures
Chapter 3One of Us
Chapter 4What the Talker Is Afraid Of
Chapter 5Basic Training
Chapter 6Words and Hands
Chapter 7The Suit Gets You in the Door
Chapter 8How the Other Man Thinks
Chapter 9The Price of Praise
Chapter 10Other People's Values
Chapter 11How to Ruin a First Meeting
Chapter 12Trust as a Skeleton Key
Chapter 13Why People Pay
Chapter 14Feeling Before Figures
Chapter 15A Vocabulary of Feelings
Chapter 16How to Stir a Feeling
Chapter 17Selling with Feeling
Chapter 18The Pain and the Fix
Chapter 19The Ladder of Attention
Chapter 20How to Show the Goods
Chapter 21Selling on a Name
Chapter 22The First Tin
Chapter 23A Fair Deal
Chapter 24A Picture with No Next Step
Chapter 25Small Change
Chapter 26Free Admission
Chapter 27The Frame Decides
Chapter 28What He Believes
Chapter 29Who He Thinks He Is
Chapter 30How Minds Change
Chapter 31Other People's Thoughts in Your Head
Chapter 32How to Talk to Your Capo
Chapter 33How to Give an Order
Chapter 34Meetings and Paper
Chapter 35How to Spot a Liar
Chapter 36What Not to Say Out LoudContents →The world of the Family
One book, three languages
Every book is complete in English, Italian and Russian. On a large screen you can read two of them side by side, paragraph against paragraph.