Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Roberto Saviano
Translated by Virginia Jewiss
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 129
Category/GenreTrue Crime
ISBN/Barcode 9781509843886
ClassificationsDewey:364.10660945
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Pan Books
Publication Date 20 April 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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, Roberto 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 organisation.

Author Biography

Robert Saviano was born in Naples, where he still lives. This is his first book.