Gomorrah

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Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received death threats and he has been assigned police protection. A ground-breaking study and a searing expose, 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 Camorra, a murderous organization who have destroyed the place he calls home.

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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 Hammetts 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 books fame, the more irritating it has become for his subjects * Independent *
This expos of Napless Mob, a sensation in Italy, opens with a scene of carnage you wont forget * Cond Nast Traveller *
This brave account of the most organised of all Italys crime fraternities demands respect. Savianos devastating account of his homeland is highly emotional . . . His descriptions of the lawless violent world of Naples are both gritty and sentimental, a poetry of cruelty. -- Sunday Telegraph
A brave expos of the gangland hell that is tearing Naples apart. A powerful work of reportage, Gomorrah became a literary sensation when it appeared in Italy last year . . . The stakes are high. Part economic analysis, part social history, part cri de coeur, this crushing testimonial is the most important book to come out of Italy in years. Like Conrads London, Savianos Naples is one of the worlds dark places. He tugged a loose thread in the fabric of Italian bourgeois respectability and kept pulling until nothing was left * Scotsman *
An extraordinarily powerful book. With its pages of gritty reportage and low-life legwork, Gomorrah recreates a truly evil sense of menace . . . Naples, one-time Arcady of Bourbon kings and queens, emerges here as disaffected, dying. If you love this city, as I do, Gomorrah will fill you with dismay * Evening Standard *

Author Bio

Roberto Saviano is a journalist and novelist. He was born in Naples, where he still lives.