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'If You Don't Scare Anyone, You Haven't Really Succeeded'

Posted at 8:26AM Monday 14 Jan 2008

Every so often, when reading Saviano's book, Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia, published in Britain this Friday, you have to pause, and remember he is writing not about some war-torn African territory or former communist state, but about life in a big city in a rich nation in western Europe; a founder-member of the European Union; a favourite destination for low-cost flyers, and a country whose affairs are increasingly - and, Saviano suggests, dangerously - bound up with ours.

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