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Writer Marked by Mob to Flee Italy

Mob wants author dead by Christmas

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 16, 2008 4:25 AM CDT

(Newser) – A best-selling author who has become a target of Italian mobsters is fleeing Italy, reports the Guardian. Writer Roberto Saviano, 28, has spent the last two years as a virtual prisoner in army barracks, surrounded by bodyguards protecting him from a Neapolitan mob family. Saviano's...   Read full story »

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