Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System (Audiobook)

from AThurman

Amazing reportage, full of fascinating set pieces about aspects of the seemingly inescapable tentacles of economic corruption and its attendant environmental devastation in the Campania region of Italy. I'd never heard of the Camorra, and learning of their death grip on huge strands of the global...

from madcatnip72

Hard-hitting, heart breaking book about the Neopolitian mafia. Arms and drug smuggling, slave labor, construction company graft and dumping pesticides into drinking water - there is nothing they won't do for money. Book is full of poignant vignettes like the ringing cellphone on the coffin of a 1...

from MikeBarton

For many people Italian orgainsed crime means the Mafia. Before the Mafia there was the Camorra. As the Mafia are to Sicily the Camprra are to Campania, the region surrounding Naples. With tentacles everywhere extortion to drugs to high fashion and even an interest in the redevelopment of the Wor...

from Kordo

This book is a fascinating look into the crime world of Naples, a world that makes the American mafioso look like a bunch of kids selling lemonade. The book is not organized as an expose per say, but rather as a memoir of someone who once lived in the area and experienced the violence first hand....

from stephmo

Gomorrah serves as an account of the history of Naples's Crime System, called the Camorra by outsiders and news outlets, that has a hold on everything from high fashion to milk to narcotics in a trade that reaches across most of Europe and into China. I read this and now eye my Prada's that I got...