Gomorrah. My life inside the mafia
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"Gomorrah", a book in the genre of investigative journalism by Roberto Saviano, tells about the brutal international criminal empire from Naples.
The author and his family - themselves born Neapolitans - personally encountered the tyranny of the mafia. Roberto Saviano's father, an ambulance doctor, once saved an 18-year-old boy who was not killed during a mafia showdown - and for this he himself was beaten half to death by bandits.
Trying to penetrate the behind-the-scenes life of Italian crime, the young journalist gets hired as a laborer in an illegal Chinese textile workshop, works as a waiter and a builder and learns a lot about the activities of mafia circles in the fields of industry, construction and drug trafficking. His gripping and disturbing account, which contains many specific details about the crimes of the Camorra - kidnapping, drug trafficking, blackmail, extortion and murder - soon after its publication in Italy becomes an international bestseller and the basis for a full-length film and a popular TV series, both released under the title "Gomorrah".
The author and his family - themselves born Neapolitans - personally encountered the tyranny of the mafia. Roberto Saviano's father, an ambulance doctor, once saved an 18-year-old boy who was not killed during a mafia showdown - and for this he himself was beaten half to death by bandits.
Trying to penetrate the behind-the-scenes life of Italian crime, the young journalist gets hired as a laborer in an illegal Chinese textile workshop, works as a waiter and a builder and learns a lot about the activities of mafia circles in the fields of industry, construction and drug trafficking. His gripping and disturbing account, which contains many specific details about the crimes of the Camorra - kidnapping, drug trafficking, blackmail, extortion and murder - soon after its publication in Italy becomes an international bestseller and the basis for a full-length film and a popular TV series, both released under the title "Gomorrah".
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Criminal Man. Classics of Criminal Psychology
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