Uncovering Italy's deadliest organized crime network.
This book is an eye-opening and chilling account of the Camorra mafia's activities in Italy and beyond. Saviano's personal experiences working undercover paint a vivid picture of the scale and brutality of this criminal organization. Readers interested in true crime, investigative journalism, and Italian culture will find this book a gripping read.
ISBN: 9780330450997
Authors:
Roberto Saviano
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Date of Publication: 2011-05-18
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.78
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Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller, and has to date sold over 1 million copies in Italy alone, where it continues to sell strongly two years after original publication. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as 'the System', the Camorra, an organized crime network with a global reach and large stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs and toxic-waste disposal, exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast is the deciding factor in why Campania has the highest murder rate in all of Europe and why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years.In pursuit of his subject, Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer and on a construction site, both controlled by 'the System', and as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to help an eighteen-year-old victim, left for dead in the street.Gomorrah is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man's impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.
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