The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
2009
HQ281 .K44 2009 (Mapit)
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Title The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Author Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
Cover Title Snake head
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780385521307
0385521308
Imprint New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Language English
Description xiv, 414 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Call Number HQ281 .K44 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.1/370973
Summary 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 officials who pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked death to realize their own version of the American dream.
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