Gomorrah is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man's impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.

With a preface to mark the ten year anniversary of publication, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller which has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone.

A groundbreaking study and a searing exposé, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization the Camorra, known by insiders as ‘the System’. With a global reach, large stakes in construction, high fashion, illegal drugs and toxic waste disposal, the Camorra exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast.

In pursuit of his subject, Roberto Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer and on a construction site, both controlled by 'the System', and as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and 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. Since publishing the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection.

From the international bestselling auhor of Gomorrah, this searing exposé of dirty money and the drug trade reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world.

'The most important book of the year ... Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism ... Saviano realises the brutal truth: that to understand narco-traffic is to understand the modern world ... it is revolutionary' Ed Vulliamy, Observer

'A dense, dazzling, dizzying narrative about the terrifying violence of the cocaine trade, but also the vast, unassailable reach of it' Rose George, Independent

'A tremendously gripping work of reportage' Ian Thomson, Evening Standard

'Italy's bravest investigative writer ... must-read nonfiction' GQ

'Impassioned, remarkable' Misha Glenny, Financial Times

'After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again' The New York Times

Hace diez años, la publicación de Gomorra conmocionó al mundo y cambió para siempre la vida de Roberto Saviano. Una década más tarde, Debate relanza el libro incluyendo un nuevo prólogo conmemorativo del autor.

Este increíble y fascinante relato real es un viaje al imperio empresarial y delictivo de la Camorra, que comienza y termina bajo el signo de las mercancías. Las mercancías «frescas», bajo las formas más variadas (videojuegos, relojes, ropa de marca) llegan al puerto de Nápoles, y para ser almacenadas y escondidas se sacan de los gigantescos contenedores e invaden antiguos palacetes, previamente vaciados por completo.

Las mercancías muertas, procedentes de toda Italia y de media Europa, en forma de residuos químicos, restos tóxicos o fango, son vertidas abusivamente en los campos, donde envenenan, entre otros, a los mismos capos que erigen en esas tierras sus fastuosas y absurdas mansiones.

Esta es hoy la Camorra (o el «Sistema», ya que casi nadie usa la palabra «Camorra»): por un lado, una organización empresarial con impresionantes ramificaciones por todo el planeta y una zona oscura siempre más extensa donde cuesta distinguir cuánta riqueza es producto directamente de la sangre y cuánta de simples operaciones financieras, y por el otro, un fenómeno criminal profundamente influido por los medios de comunicación y la sociedad del espectáculo, cuyos dirigentes imitan la manera de vestir y de moverse de las estrellas del cine y de las figuras míticas, de los gánsteres de Tarantino a las siniestras apariciones de El cuervo con Brandon Lee.

En este libro absorbente y escrupulosamente documentado, Roberto Saviano ha reconstruido tanto la aterradora lógica económico-financiera y expansionista de los clanes napolitano y casertano como las febriles fantasías que suman el fatalismo mortuorio de los samuráis medievales japoneses.

El resultado es un libro extraordinario y potente, apasionado y brutal, al tiempo objetivo y visionario, de investigación y literario, lleno de horrores e inquietantes fascinaciones; un libro narrado siempre en primera persona por este joven autor, nacido y criado en la tierra de la Camorra más dura.

Reseñas:
«Una reconstrucción minuciosa de los entresijos y el funcionamiento de la mafia napolitana. Detalles, fechas, nombres y apellidos dotan al texto de un realismo estremecedor.»
El Periódico

«Un dicho antiguo afirmaba que Nápoles era "un paradiso abitato da diavoli". De los diablos que habitan ese fascinante paraíso se ocupa Roberto Saviano en Gomorra.»
José Luis García Martín, ABC

Explosive, bestselling account of Mexico’s drug cartels and the government–business nexus that enables them.

The product of five years' investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to its author, Anabel Hernández, Narcoland has been a publishing and political sensation in Mexico. The definitive history of the drug cartels, Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the “war on drugs,” which has so far cost more than 60,000 lives in just six years. Hernández explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. At every turn, Hernández names names—not just the narcos, but also the politicians, functionaries, judges and entrepreneurs who have collaborated with them. In doing so, she reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite. Hernández became a journalist after her father was kidnapped and killed and the politce refused to investigate without a bribe. She gained national prominence in 2001 with her exposure of excess and misconduct at the presidential palace, and previous books have focused on criminality at the summit of power, under presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón. In awarding Hernández the 2012 Golden Pen of Freedom, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers noted, “Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with violence and impunity remaining major challenges in terms of press freedom. In making this award, we recognize the strong stance Ms. Hernández has taken, at great personal risk, against drug cartels.”