McMafia is a TV series created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins in 2018 and inspired by the book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny, first published in 2008. The TV series features James Norton, David Strathairn, Juliet Rylance, Aleksey Serebryakov, Mariya Shukshina, Oshri Cohen, and others.
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Storyline
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family’s past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.
Movie vs Book
Year
2018
Minutes
60
Movie Rate
7.70
Source: IMDb
TV Series
McMafia
Creator: Hossein Amini, James Watkins
Country: UK
Year: 2018-
Length: 1h / 9 episodes
Year
2008
Pages
416
Book Rate
7.80
S: Goodreads
Book
McMafia
Subtitle: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Author: Misha Glenny
Country: UK
First published in: 2008
Length: 416 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“The TV series is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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