The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream /

The rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss--Sister Ping--and the intricate human trafficking network she created from her business in New York City's Chinatown, together with a panoramic tale about the gangland gunslingers who worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement o...

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Main Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, c2009
Edition:1st ed
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-404) and index 
505 0 |a Pilgrims -- Leaving Fujian -- Eighteen-thousand-dollar woman -- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching -- Swiftwater -- Year of the snake -- Mombasa -- The phantom ship -- The Teaneck massacre -- Mutiny in the Atlantic -- A well-founded fear -- The fat man -- Freedom birds -- The goldfish and the Great Wall -- Parole -- Snakeheads international -- Catching Lilly Zhang -- The mother of all Snakeheads 
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650 0 |a Illegal aliens  |z United States 
650 0 |a Human smuggling  |z United States 
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