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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Table of Contents:
  • 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