Yeah. I've read GOMORRAH. I also watched the movie of the same name, loosely based on the book. Pretty good, and a realistic portrail(As far as my reference points anyways) of what it is like for some of the lower level street guys in those organizations.
I am going to find a translation app or something and buy a few of these books and I'll post on what ones are good.
The movie A PROPHET is dope. Kind of an American version of CHOPPER or BLOOD IN, BLOD OUT. If you haven't seen it, see it. It is about an Arab kid who goes to prison in France and get pulled under the wing of a Corsican gangster. Good stuff.
Gomorrah is a great book, can't believe the Iovine of the Camorra turned rat. Saviano has some pretty big cogliones to do what he did, fearing for his life every day.
http://af11.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/camorra-mafia-superboss-turns-squealer/Chopper is a MUST SEE. Have you ever seen the behind the scenes footage with Eric Bana and Mark Read, when he's telling him how exactly slicing his ears off went down? I will post it if you haven't seen it. Crazy stuff. (Also Ronnie Johns show doing skits on chopper is hilarious ever see that?)
Blood in Blood Out is another MUST SEE movie about the vatos of L.A. La M in the jails. Living in So Cali some of the vatos I went to high school with got locked up for working with cartels, drug trafficking. Most of them are blood relatives, families going back a few generations, they all got locked up" gramps, pops, uncles, sons and nephews minimum 15 years in the can.
Have you ever seen the "The Sicilian Girl"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213926/combinedIt's based on a true story of a girl who testified against the mafia.
There's also a jail flick called Bronson with Tom Hardy playing the lead. It's a great movie, some parts are a lil far fetched but very entertaining to say the least. Hardy is great as always.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172570/
