Frank Rappa is truly a piece of mafia history: the head of the Palermo flying squad, Boris Giuliano, had investigated him a few months before he was killed in 1979, when he was outlining a map of contacts between the American and Sicilian mafias, around the drug business. “We are faced with a vast organization that operates in the international field – wrote the investigator in the report of 7 May 1979 – adopting considerable means, making use of the most advanced techniques and taking advantage of complicity and connivance”. Today Rappa is being investigated by the SCO, a branch of the Central Anti-Crime Directorate of the State Police, which is directed by Boris Giuliano's son, Alessandro, a highly experienced policeman, like the new police commissioner of Palermo, Vito Calvino, who took office on October 1st.