Highly recommended to anyone interested into organized crime. Author gives a very strong view and opinions - approach is not strictly journalistic and it is not just dry fact listing, author gives his own thoughts on the subject and not only regarding crimes but introspective on how constant contact with crime affects the person itself, his/hers perception of the world.

Highly recommended. ( )

En bok som följer i kokainets spår. Journalisten Roberto Saviano, som tidigare skrivit om den italienska maffian, följer här den flod av kokain som rinner fram under de stora städerna. En flod som rinner upp i Sydamerika, tar vägen om Afrika, förgrenar sig åt alla håll och leder till enorma rikedoma...

Tre stelle perché l'avrei preferito più concentrato sul presente che sul passato, forse mi hanno un po' pesato tutti i fatti di sangue e le storie delle famiglie messicane etc.. Comunque un libro che sta bene letto, poi si può approfondire o ritornare a chiudere gli occhi.

Saviano writes with passion and complete commitment about the world-wide cocaine trade. Having put his life on the line by publishing Gomorrah 10 years ago he has to live under police protection, losing all spontaneity, unable to travel or visit any place, a shop, a restaurant … without elaborate security preparations.
I never realized how much organized crime centering on the cocaine trade has penetrated and now dominates world economies to the extent that, without the truly enormous sums of ready cash to be laundered, many banks would not survive and the whole international financial sector would be in danger of collapse. Because it is the financial centre of the world he calls London the ‘crime capital’ of the world. Clearly the ‘war’ against the cocaine trade cannot and never will be won. S. states and I agree that legitimizing cocaine is the only solution. (A thought: Is the legitimizing of cocaine and abolition of the British overseas tax-havens - so convenient for washing dirty money - resisted because it would endanger the status of the London ‘City’ and the easy riches of those who run it?)
It is a book that should be read by all who are prepared to look beyond their daily worries to look at and then worry about the state of the world today. (VI-16) ( )