He was acquainted with several of the honest men who have been eliminated by the Mafia in recent years. He was particularly close to Mauro De Mauro and Giuseppe Fava, both journalists, Cesare Terranova, judge, and Pio La Torre, member of parliament. This epilogue is dedicated to their memory. TWENTY YEARS have passed since the appearance of the penetrating and accurate report by Norman Lewis on the Sicilian Mafia, ironically entitled The Honoured Society. To read it again today one finds little there to alter or correct; the question that remains to be answered is what happened to the personalities who featured in Norman Lewis’s story and what has happened to the Honoured Society itself? As was to be foreseen, many mafiosi active in 1963 are dead, and not all of them peacefully in their beds. The Mafia, on the other hand, survives, and, not only that, but has grown and changed its form. It is no longer a feudal, but a capitalist organisation, based not only in Sicily but in Italy as a whole, from which it has extended the range of its operations to neigh-bouring countries, as well as retaining its strong links in the United States.
