Roberto Saviano

Review: The Piranhas by Roberto Saviano

By Gabino Iglesias

September 7, 2018

The Piranhas by internationally bestselling author Roberto Saviano is a novel of gang warfare and a young man’s dark desire to rise to the top of Naples’s underworld. Roberto Saviano is one of the best contemporary international crime authors, and The Piranhas is further proof that he belongs in any list of outstanding crime writers.…

One Giant Gomorrah to Destroy

By Lance Charnes

October 12, 2016

Gomorrah (Picador Press) is Roberto Saviano’s bestselling account of the Camorra’s audacious corruption of Naples and beyond in the 1990s and 2000s. In December 1991, Giuseppe (Don Peppino) Diana, the doomed parish priest of the Neapolitan suburb of Casal di Principe, published an open letter to his parishioners called “For the Love of My People…