Those who decide to visit Sicily would ask themselves – just for simple curiosity or maybe due to fear - some questions regarding the Mafia: what is it? How does it operate? What kind of damage does it cause? This small volume answers to the most common of these questions: with intellectual honesty, without hiding the ugly things of the Mafia (a stain that disgraces a beautiful island), but also wiping away the groundless fears of those who think to be more in danger going along Sicilian roads compared to the roads in the rest of the world.