The Calabrian

Danielli Romero is happy to start afresh in Australia and leave behind the old ways of the ndrangheta, the powerful Calabrian mafia. Lucciano "Lucky" Mammone is determined to bring la mala vita – the evil life – with him and enforce it at the point of a gun. From the sugar cane fields of Queensland to the fertile soil of the NSW food bowl their influence and power reaches those at the very top of the country. 


The Calabrian  is an un-put-downable novel woven through with the authentic history of the mafia and Australia.


Matthew Benns is Editor-at-Large at The Daily Telegraph in Sydney. He is a career journalist from Fleet Street to Sydney and has covered stories all over the world, tracking tigers in the Russian Far East to finding Elvis Presley's first girlfriend in Biloxi, Mississippi. He has written a number of best selling non-fiction books including The Men Who Killed Qantas; Kathleen Folbigg Australia's Worst Female Serial Killer; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Mistress; Dirty Money and Fixed. He is the creator of Nick and La Contessa, the beloved characters from his enormously popular ‘COVID serial’ published daily in the Hibernation section of The Daily Telegraph.