Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received so many death threats that he has been assigned police protection in his native Naples. A groundbreaking study and a searing exposé, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization the Camorra, known by insiders as ‘the System’. With a global reach, large stakes in construction, high fashion, illegal drugs and toxic waste disposal, the Camorra exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast. Now an international sensation, it is at once a bold and gripping piece of investigative journalism as well as the story of one brave young man, his life in Naples and his contempt for the murderous organization who destroyed the place he calls home.
Review
Powerful and poetic - Sunday Telegraph
This crushing testimonial is the most important book to come out of Italy in years . . . After reading Gomorrah, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again - The New York Times
This is a kaleidoscopic personal testimony rooted in a visceral rage and revulsion at what organized crime has done to one of the most beautiful places on earth . . . Read this important book - The Guardian
One of the most enthralling and distrubing books written on organized crime - The Economist
Roberto Saviano's horrifying book paints organised crime as it really is. Forget Vito Corleone; forget Ray Liotta in Goodfellas . . . as an insight into a terrifying world by a remarkable investigative journalist, it is riveting. - Mail on Sunday
Astonishing . . . the eyewitness accounts he brings to the page – stories of murderous brutality and devastating debasement – could have been told by one of Dashiell Hammett’s chilly protagonists - Washington Post
[Roberto Saviano] is in grave danger of being shot, stabbed, blown up and done away with because he has had the courage and the recklessness to spill a large number of beans about the Camorra, the Mafia of Naples . . . The greater his book’s fame, the more irritating it has become for his subjects - Independent
This exposé of Naples’s Mob, a sensation in Italy, opens with a scene of carnage you won’t forget - Condé Nast Traveller
This brave account of the most organised of all Italy’s crime fraternities demands respect. Saviano’s devastating account of his homeland is hig
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