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A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Knopf
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
400 pages
ISBN: 1400044111
EAN: 9781400044115
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the
Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international
financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs
alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless
expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee
that the greatest success story to arise from these events
would be the globalization of organized crime. Current
estimates suggest that illegal trade accounts for nearly
one-fifth of global GDP. McMafia is a fearless, encompassing, wholly authoritative
investigation of the now proven ability of organized crime
worldwide to find and service markets driven by a
seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares. Whether
discussing the Russian mafia, Colombian drug cartels, or
Chinese labor smugglers, Misha Glenny makes clear how
organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing
world, how it exploits new technology in the forms of
cybercrime and identity theft, and how both global crime
and terror are fueled by an identical source: the
triumphant material affluence of the West. To trace the disparate strands of this hydra-like story,
Glenny talked to police, victims, politicians, and members
of the global underworld in eastern Europe, North and
South America, Africa, the Middle East, China, Japan, and
India. The story of organized crime’s phenomenal, often
shocking growth is truly the central political story of
our time. McMafia will change the way we look at the world.
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