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Zero Zero Zero

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano, read by Paul Michael.

From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing exposé of dirty money and the drug trade reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world.

'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

Critics Review

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.
Financial Times
A dense, dazzling, dizzying narrative about the terrifying violence of the cocaine trade, but also the vast, unassailable reach of it.
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
Telegraph
Intriguing . . . grimly absorbing . . . a tremendously gripping work of reportage
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
Author Roberto Saviano
Narrator Paul Michael
Duration 16 hours and 2 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780141985657
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Drugs trade / drug trafficking, International economics, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, True crime
Collections RBC Non-Fiction Top Picks
Availability AU, GB, IE

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