Gomorra
by Roberto Saviano
About the book
A gripping piece of investigative writing in which Saviano turns his own reporting into a first-person journey through the world of the Camorra, the Neapolitan crime network. He follows the money, the goods, and the human cost across construction sites, textile factories, and ports, showing how organised crime is woven into the fabric of everyday economic life.
What I thought
What stayed with me most was how ordinary so much of it looks from the outside. Saviano writes with the intensity of someone who has clearly paid a personal price for telling this story, and that urgency comes through on every page. I appreciated how it treats readers as adults — no easy heroes, no tidy conclusions, just an honest attempt to make visible something that usually stays hidden. It shifted how I think about supply chains, power, and the quiet cost of looking away.