Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano`s groundbreaking & 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 & large stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs & toxic-waste disposal, exerts a malign grip on cities & villages along the Neapolitan coast is the deciding factor in why Campania has the highest murder rate in all of Europe & why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years. In pursuit of his subject, Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer & on a construction site, both controlled by `the System`, & as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, & 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 & engrossing piece of investigative writing & one heroic young man`s impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.