Gomorrah Author Saviano Marks 10th Year in Protective Custody (Sort Of)

Roberto Saviano wrote an acclaimed best seller -- and has
lived under severe restrictions ever since. 
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In October 2006, precisely 10 years ago yesterday, Roberto Saviano, the award-winning Italian writer who lives under police protection, received the phone call that changed his life.

Saviano's widely lauded Gomorrah was issued earlier that year in his homeland by Mondadori, one of Italy's top publishing houses. (It wouldn't be available in the U.S. until 2008.) It was the...