Patrick Radden Keefe - Snakehead : An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Under

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The Author Name is Patrick Radden Keefe
The Title is The Snakehead : An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

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Content Language - English
Category - TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights


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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. 'A powerful piece of reportage about the violent underworld of New York's Chinatown' - The Times

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