Awards

• Commended for Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award 2019
• Runner-up for Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award 2019

Overview

Newsweek’s Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe’s doorstep. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy’s picturesque southern coast, tens of thousands of refugees and migrants are forced to work in the sex trade, as drug mules or weapon smugglers. In this powerful expose, Barbie follows the weapons trail, meets the trafficked women trapped by a voodoo curse,  the brave nuns who try to save them,  and the Italian police who turn a blind eye as the most urgent issues  facing Europe play out in broad daylight.

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`Barbie Latza Nadeau takes you on an exhilarating ride through Italy's dark underbelly. She shines a stark light on a grimy world populated by Nigerian druglords, Italian Mafiosi, dirty cops and voodoo doctors. An incredibly thorough, alarming and highly readable piece of investigative journalism.' -- Tina Brown `This is a terrifying and heartbreaking book... I will find it difficult, from now on, to contemplate today's world without thinking about what goes on in Castel Volturno.' * Colin Firth * `Barbie Latza Nadeau dissects the intricate relationship between those who make a living from organized crime, terrorism and sex trafficking with an astute understanding of the Italian culture that allows it to prosper.' -- Michael Winterbottom, filmmaker, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Road to Guantanamo, A Mighty Heart

'I read the book in one horrified gulp...a profound, appalling portrait of a country overwhelmed by crime, and which somehow managed to keep a focus on the human victims and the geopolitical forces at play.' * Tobias Jones, author of <i>The Dark Heart of Italy</i> * `Barbie Latza Nadeau takes you on an exhilarating ride through Italy's dark underbelly.' * Tina Brown * `This is a terrifying and heartbreaking book... I will find it difficult, from now on, to contemplate today's world without thinking about what goes on in Castel Volturno.' * Colin Firth * `Barbie Latza Nadeau dissects the intricate relationship between those who make a living from organized crime, terrorism and sex trafficking with an astute understanding of the Italian culture that allows it to prosper.' -- Michael Winterbottom, filmmaker, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Road to Guantanamo, A Mighty Heart 'The book, built on interviews with many participants, is well-reported and consistently heartbreaking...Nadeau's book makes for a useful work of advocacy, calling attention to a terrible traffic in human misery.' * <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> * 'Barbie Latza Nadeau uncovers a web of criminal activity in Italy, involving thousands of refugees and migrants who are lured into the underworld and forced to become sex slaves, drug mules, or weapon smugglers.' * <i>Publishers Weekly</i> *

'I read the book in one horrified gulp...a profound, appalling portrait of a country overwhelmed by crime, and which somehow managed to keep a focus on the human victims and the geopolitical forces at play.' * Tobias Jones, author of <i>The Dark Heart of Italy</i> * `Barbie Latza Nadeau takes you on an exhilarating ride through Italy's dark underbelly.' * Tina Brown * `This is a terrifying and heartbreaking book... I will find it difficult, from now on, to contemplate today's world without thinking about what goes on in Castel Volturno.' * Colin Firth * `Barbie Latza Nadeau dissects the intricate relationship between those who make a living from organized crime, terrorism and sex trafficking with an astute understanding of the Italian culture that allows it to prosper.' -- Michael Winterbottom, filmmaker, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Road to Guantanamo, A Mighty Heart

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Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist in Rome, working for Newsweek, The Daily Beast and CNN. For more than two decades she has covered crime in Europe, Italian politics, the Vatican, migration, the refugee crisis and women’s issues. Her previous book about the murder trials of Amanda Knox, Angel Face (2010), was adapted for film by Michael Winterbottom (The Face of an Angel, 2015), starring Kate Beckinsale as a journalist based on Barbie herself.

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