'You remember what Claire Sterling did with the attempt on the Pope?'

Corruption in Aruba is so widespread that "Claire Sterling, widely acclaimed for her works on drugs and crime, said of it: 'the world's first independent mafia state emerged in 1993.'"

Approaching the close of the century, Claire Sterling uses "Octopus" as the title and symbol for what she perceives as a far larger international evil: the Sicilian Mafia.

Claire Sterling, an American author and correspondent based in Italy, who was known for her writings on terrorism, assassination and crime, died yesterday in a hospital in Arezzo, Italy.

The book was "The Terror Network" by Claire Sterling, a journalist who advanced the thesis that a Soviet conspiracy was behind the world's terrorism.

Claire Sterling (née Neikind; October 21, 1919 - June 17, 1995) was an American author and journalist whose work focused on crime, political assassination, and terrorism.

OCTOPUS: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia, by Claire Sterling.

By Claire Sterling.

Claire Sterling sets out to prove that the Sicilian Mafia is an omnipotent organisation rapidly infiltrating the above-ground economy.

The Terror Network (ISBN 0030506611) is a 1981 book by Claire Sterling which argued that the USSR was using terrorists as a proxy force.