Zero Zero Zero
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  • Published: 20 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141985657
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

Zero Zero Zero

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2 Jul 2015
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20 Oct 2016
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15 Aug 2016
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From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes and electrifying investigation of the secret world of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy

In Zero Zero Zero, Roberto Saviano maps the international cocaine trade. He investigates the evolution of cocaine trafficking, from Mexican drug cartels to money laundering through Wall Street. Tracking cocaine's physical journey - from South America to the beaches of Miami and the streets of New York, and on to Africa and throughout Europe and even further to China and India - Saviano follows the human trail of users, victims and traffickers. First-hand accounts will show how the global sale and consumption of cocaine has radically altered economies over recent decades, and has impacted societies globally. With these stories, Saviano makes a secret world readable.
  • Published: 20 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141985657
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano was born in Naples in 1979. He is the author of the international bestseller Gomorrah, which has sold over ten million copies in fifty languages worldwide. The film adaptation of Gomorrah won the Grand Prix of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. He has been living under police protection since October 2006, following threats received from the criminal organisations that he denounced. In November 2008 Saviano was invited by the Nobel Committee in Stockholm to give a lecture on 'Freedom of Speech and Lawless Violence.'

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Praise for Zero Zero Zero

Impassioned . . . a literary style that switches from vivid descriptions of human depravity to a philosophical consideration of the meaning of violence in the modern world.

Misha Glenny, Financial Times

A dense, dazzling, dizzying narrative about the terrifying violence of the cocaine trade, but also the vast, unassailable reach of it.

Independent, Rose George

Vivid . . . lands a resounding thump to the solar plexus

Economist

A powerful work of reportage . . . it goes to the heart of the financial sector's dependence on drug capital and its depredations

Ian Thomson, Telegraph

Intriguing . . . grimly absorbing . . . a tremendously gripping work of reportage

Ian Thomson, Evening Standard

After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again.

The New York Times

Saviano is a blazingly vivid and courageous writer.

Independent

Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly about terrible things.

Le Parisien

A national hero.

Umberto Eco

Brave and passionate

Guardian

Saviano should be commended for his bravery, and supported by all who share his revulsion.

Observer