In this book Saviano employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra, exposing its territory and business connections.

"[1] Since 2006, following the publication of the book, Saviano has been threatened by several Neapolitan "godfathers" The Italian Minister of the Interior granted him a permanent police escort, but he has often been attacked by politicians of Berlusconi's cabinet.

[2] The title of the book comes from a text by Giuseppe Diana, a parish priest in Casal di Principe who was killed by the Camorra in March 1994: "time has come to stop being a Gomorrah.

[8] Gomorrah has been made into a play written by Saviano with Mario Gelardi and a 2008 film directed by Matteo Garrone and produced by Fandango.

[9] In reviewing Garrone's film adaptation of the book, Christoph Huber wrote: "With its interest in moving beyond the categories of novel or non-fiction, Saviano's work has been identified as part of a heterogeneous strain of national literature, subsumed as the New Italian Epic.