Zero Zero Zero
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  • Published: 15 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781846147708
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99

Zero Zero Zero

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

International bestselling author Roberto Saviano explores the inner workings of the world of drugs and dirty money - its rules and armies - and the true depth of its reach. From Mexican cartels to Milanese financiers, Guatemalan mercenaries to Ukrainian warlords, Calabrian traffickers to the traders in Wall Street and London who wash the money clean, this is an unforgettable story that goes around the globe and through every level of society to show the extent to which the drug trade affects us all.
  • Published: 15 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781846147708
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99
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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

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

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

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

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