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Title: GOMORRAH
ITALY'S OTHER MAFIA
By: Roberto Saviano
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0330450999
ISBN 13: 9780330450997
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Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 3 October, 2008
Edition: Media tie-in
Pages: 424
Description: A story of Campania under the rule of a murderous organization.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 1 map
Publication: UK
Imprint: Pan Books
Returns: Returnable
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