The Snakehead
An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
(Sprache: Englisch)
The sweeping history of the American dream, Manhattan's Chinatown underbelly, and the grandma mastermind behind one of the largest human smuggling rings.
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The sweeping history of the American dream, Manhattan's Chinatown underbelly, and the grandma mastermind behind one of the largest human smuggling rings.
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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.' TimeIn 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2023, Main Market Ed., 448 Seiten, Masse: 13,3 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1529099889
- ISBN-13: 9781529099881
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
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
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