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Gomorrah (tie-in): Italy's Other Mafia Book
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Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. 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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Blackwell
The explosive international bestseller Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their...
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Foyles
The Camorra are Italy's other organised crime syndicate; the award-winning author is now in hiding.
- 0330450999
- 9780330450997
- Roberto Saviano
- 3 October 2008
- Pan
- Paperback (Book)
- 424
- Media tie-in
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