Mobsters Without Borders
Criminal entrepreneurs are thriving on globalization with well-organized, cosmopolitan networks
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What do the Balkans, Khazakhstan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, South Africa, British Columbia, Japan, and China all have in common? According to British journalist and former BBC correspondent Misha Glenny, these countries are the new hotspots of an expanding international network of illegal activity.
In his fourth book, , Glenny guides readers through the worldwide "shadow economy," where we meet a motley crew of unsavory, entrepreneurial characters: Serbian cigarette smugglers, South African arms dealers, Nigerian fraudsters, Canadian pot growers, and Middle Eastern money launderers, to name a few. Like a cruise director on a vice tour, Glenny tells a streetwise, rollicking, and at times disturbing story.