Gomorrah. My Life Inside the Mafia

“Gomorrah”, a book in the genre of investigative journalism by Roberto Saviano, tells about a brutal international criminal empire from Naples. The author and his family — born Neapolitans themselves — have personally faced the arbitrariness of the mafia. Roberto... Saviano's father, an ambulance doctor, once saved an 18-year-old boy who had been beaten during a mafia confrontation — and for this, he was himself beaten by thugs to within an inch of his life.
In an attempt to penetrate the backstage life of Italian crime, a young journalist gets hired as a day laborer in an illegal Chinese textile workshop, works as a waiter and a construction worker, and learns a lot about the activities of mafia circles in the fields of industry, construction, and drug trafficking. His gripping and alarming narrative, containing many specific details about the crimes of the Camorra — kidnappings, drug trafficking, blackmail, extortion, and murders, soon becomes an international bestseller shortly after its publication in Italy and is the basis for a feature film and popular series released under the title “Gomorrah”.