This chapter turns to Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra (2006) and addresses a central but critically neglected aspect of the book’s exploration of the Camorra’s ‘criminal empire’—the colonial dynamics of the economic exploitation of the Naples area on the part of organized crime and the complicity of Italian institutions and industries with that exploitation. I focus on the insights afforded by Gomorra’s economic gaze, particularly regarding Naples’ status as emblematic of Italy’s condition in a globalized economy, and on the text’s simultaneous deployment of Neapolitan literary motifs and the national discourse of impegno. I argue that Gomorra mediates between local and national cultural practices and discourses to speak simultaneously to a constituency of readers within and beyond Naples. It thus exemplifies the practice of cultural accentedness while calling to account agents within the national media and industrial sectors for their complicity with or contribution to the Camorra’s exploitation of Neapolitan residents and territory. I close with a consideration of the critical reception of Saviano’s book and ask what the scholarly disregard for the national import of its analysis says about the relationship between Naples and the nation and about the discursive construction of Italy.