Italian journalist Roberto Saviano was twenty-six years
old when he published his first book, Gomorrah, to international acclaim. The
book, which has gone on to sell 10 million copies worldwide, was a detailed
exposé of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, whose organized crime
tactics have permeated all matters of industry in Naples: government,
infrastructure, high fashion, and drugs.
Over
fifteen years after Gomorrah's release, Saviano's life has been under
constant threat from would be assassins who forced him to leave his native Italy
and to live under constant police protection.
For the first time since then, Saviano shares
his deepest thoughts and experiences of early life in Naples, witnessing the
power and violence of Camorra firsthand, his current existence living under
guard, all the while continuing to call attention to the deeply rooted crime and
corruption that plagues his home.
Collaborating with award-winning cartoonist
Asaf Hanuka (The Realist, The Divine), both writer and artist examine a life
behind armed guard whose best recourse against oppression is through old
fashioned pen and paper.
For the first time since the publication of his internationally bestselling novel, Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano shares his early-life experience with the violence of the Neapolitan Mafia and how exposing them irrevocably changed his life.
