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Zero Zero Zero
€ 16.25
ISBN: 9781846147708
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing exposé reveals how dirty money and the drug trade are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world.
In many countries, 'zero zero' or double zero flour is the finest, best flour on the market. Among narco-traffickers, then, 'zero zero zero' is the nickname for the very purest, highest quality grade of cocaine. 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.
Weaving together stories, interviews, wiretaps and his own experience of the criminal underworld, Saviano reveals an international narco-state, which, in the wake of the financial crisis, is now the pillar of our global economy. It is the perfect synthesis of modern capitalism, where everything is for the taking - and all is consumed, ruined and destroyed.
"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).
"A dense, dazzling, dizzying narrative about the terrifying violence of the cocaine trade, but also the vast, unassailable reach of it". (Rose George, Independent).
"A tremendously gripping work of reportage". (Ian Thomson, Evening Standard).
"Italy's bravest investigative writer ...must-read nonfiction". (GQ).
"Impassioned, remarkable". (Misha Glenny, Financial Times).
"After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again". (The New York Times).
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Date of Publication: 25/08/2016
