Johann Hari

  • Snow Blind

    Roberto Saviano is possibly the world’s bravest journalist. In his 2006 book, Gomorrah, he defied the omertà that had prevented anyone from telling the truth about the Mafia’s control over his native Naples for a century. Since then, Italy’s organized-crime syndicates have put out multiple contracts on his life. They have a record of killing anyone who exposes their inner workings, including judges.

    But instead of waiting to be hunted, Saviano has decided to become the hunter. He heard whispers that the Italian Mafia was becoming ever more deeply enmeshed with the Colombian and Mexican drug