Obtaining cum laude registration in the field of knowledge of the mafias and their organized crime systems, surviving the process, remains in the hands of few. Among those who infiltrated the mafia, specifically the Italian Camorra, and lived to tell about it, highlights Roberto Saviano.
In the case of book The boys band, this author moves to the side of fiction to transmit everything lived in that particular underworld, with that committed intention of someone who needs to expose to the world buried realities that end up reaching the most unexpected spaces of power.
But behind (or inside) any criminal organization, we always find the necessary little partners, those young people recruited for the cause and who leave their skin on the street, all for a feeling of belonging and some money that ends up being reverted to the organization.
The protagonists of this story are those boys from Naples, par excellence, but from any other city by extension (the problem is the same). Ten young people lead us on the wild side of life. They are boys who one day look into the abyss of supposedly easy money (although it may eventually cost their own life), drugs, apparent luxuries and belonging to a clan.
They all want to keep moving up in the organization. Nicolas Fiorillo is its visible head, and among all they fear their neighborhoods of influence. They are barely teenagers, but they have known how to find a clan to which they remain loyal and in which they try to thrive in whatever way.
Violence, the roar of small motorcycles that roam freely through the streets, blood, shady businesses and the empty hope of an easy life towards a splendid future. Respect through weapons and a certain condescension from the authorities. The minority as a shield against the law but not against death. Endings that break their hopes and glory for the one who can survive that so-called easy life.
An interesting novel with completely true tints. Highly recommended for delving into parallel realities about the little lackeys who serve the big mafias.
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