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The Snakehead - An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Paperback)
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The Snakehead - An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 710
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'Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with
gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that
it's all true.' Time In this thrilling panorama of real-life
events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a
secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic
middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's
Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.
In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings
of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping's complex empire and recounts
the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down.
He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it
pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America,
and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of
undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that
sustains and exploits them. Grand in scope yet propulsive in
narrative force, The Snakehead is both a kaleidoscopic crime story
and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in
America.
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