Petó ferotge

With this novel based on the very bloody Neapolitan reality, Roberto Saviano continues to explore the bowels of the Camorra. In Ferocious Kiss, he picks up the teenage gangsters from The Children's Gang where he left off. If that book closed with a mother crying out for revenge for the death of her son, it starts with the attempt to carry out that revenge in the most terrible way possible: murdering a baby in the nursery of a hospital. In this novel we witness the rise to power of Marajá, who faces other families who want to restore the previous order. Saviano portrays the clan wars for control of drugs and camels, the presence of gangs of gypsies, Chinese and Albanians, the tentacles of organized crime that spread to the north of the country, revenge, betrayal and blood with which they are paid. And again we come across Naples, that city devastated by the Camorra, and with those young people whose dreams are made up of luxury cars, weapons, sex, cocaine and violence that breeds more violence. We could be facing a Shakespearean tragedy, with its ambitions, greed, disloyalty, struggles for the throne, attempts at redemption, characters struggling to maintain dignity in the midst of rot ... But we are facing the harshest reality, once embodied more with a masterful hand by Roberto Saviano, an essential chronicler of the moral and social decomposition of southern Italy at the hands of the mafia clans.