Gomorrah: Roberto Saviano's Book on Naples' Organized Crime System

To write Gomorrah, his journey into the Neapolitan organized crime, Roberto Saviano had investigated for several years on the activities of the Camorra, the criminal organization that rules over Naples and the whole Campania. An organization not as well known as the Sicilian Mafia but far more dangerous, because the Mafia arose as an "Anti-State", has a code of honor and respects certain rules, while the Camorra is a form of criminal entrepreneurship whose sole purpose is to maximize its profits through organized crime and its members are willing to do anything to achieve this goal. For the author the Camorra pushes its mechanisms to their extreme to be at the forefront of the global economy. He describes its relations with China, the role of the port of Naples, the importance of textile in Italy and overseas, drug and arm-trafficking in arms and drugs, construction and real estate. While reviewing all these issues, Saviano presents facts, figures and concrete elements on the scope of crime in the "System", the real name of the Camorra.

Because of his incredible chronicle the Camorra has sentenced Saviano to death. He is under police escort Camorra 24/24. Poised between fiction and documentary, "Gomorrah" is a realist painting of Neapolitan organized crime that will shake you.

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