Very impressive . . . I admire Roberto [Saviano] a lot.' Leila SlimaniIn Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the 'Paranze', the 'Children's Gangs', groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or playing Call of Duty on their PlayStations and patrolling the streets armed with pistols and AK-47s, terrorizing local residents in order to mark out the territories of their Mafia bosses.Gang leader Nicolas is known to his friends and enemies as the 'Maharaja'. His ambitions reach far beyond doing other men's bidding: he wants to be the one giving orders and calling the shots. But the violence he is accustomed to wielding soon spirals out of his control . . .'Thriller of the month . . . First-rate' Sunday Times'The children of Gomorrah . . . In Mr Saviano's Naples, not even the playgrounds are safe' The Economist

'A kind of Instagram-era Godfather, pungent with trashtalking and squalid detail.' Metro'This is an Italy everyone should see' Literary Review