The Zero Zero Zero author says his exposé of the international narcotics trade is a non-fiction novel, in response to accusations by journalist Michael Moynihan
The Italian journalist Roberto Saviano has defended himself against accusations of plagiarism in his new book Zero Zero Zero, describing himself as a “non-fiction novelist” in the manner of Truman Capote.
Saviano, who has lived under police protection since 2006 after publishing his acclaimed investigation into the Naples mafia, Gomorrah, released Virginia Jewiss’s English translation of Zero Zero Zero in July. It is billed as an investigation into “the inner workings of the world of drugs and dirty money – its rules and armies – and the true depth of its reach”, in which Saviano “weav[es] together stories, interviews, wiretaps and his own experience of the criminal underworld” to reveal “an international narco-state”.
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