Gomorrah. My Life Inside the Mafia

“Gomorrah”, a book in the genre of investigative journalism by Roberto Saviano, tells about a ruthless international criminal empire from Naples. The author and his family—who are originally Neapolitans—have personally faced the tyranny of the mafia. Roberto Saviano's father, an emergency doctor, once saved an 18-year-old boy who had been shot during a mafia showdown—and for this, he was beaten by gangsters to near death.
In an attempt to penetrate the behind-the-scenes life of Italian crime, a young journalist takes a job 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 alarming account, which contains numerous specific details about the crimes of the Camorra—kidnappings, drug trafficking, blackmail, extortion, and murders—soon becomes an international bestseller after its publication in Italy and serves as the basis for a feature film and a popular series released under the name “Gomorrah”.