Omertà, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's code of honour for centuries. Born in the beautiful Sicilian hills, Omertà carried the Mafia through a century of change, but at the close of a tempestuous century it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honour may be silent - but money talks.

In New York a mob boss is assassinated and no one will talk. His nephew and the head of the city's FBI each launch investigations into the murder. But silence spreads like a contagion: the silence of rival gangs, the silence of crooked bankers; even the silence of the courts. However, the world of the Mafiosi is one without integrity, and one riven with greed. And when money starts to talk...