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Autor: SAVIANO ROBERTO
Editorial: PAN
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ISBN: 9780330450997
Reseña: Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film Roberto Savianos groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750000 copies in Italy alone. 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 mans impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.
