num_pages: 398
description: With the collapse of the Soviet Union the fall of the Berlin Wall and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989 governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the globalization of organized crime. McMafia is a fearless encompassing wholly authoritative investigation of the now proven ability of organized crime worldwide to find and service markets driven by a seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares. Whether discussing the Russian mafia Colombian drug cartels or Chinese labor smugglers Misha Glenny makes clear how organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing world how it exploits new technology in the forms of cybercrime and identity theft and how both global crime and terror are fueled by an identical source: the triumphant material affluence of the West. To trace the disparate strands of this hydra-like story Glenny talked to police victims politicians and members of the global underworld in eastern Europe North and South America Africa the Middle East China Japan and India. The story of organized crime's phenomenal often shocking growth is truly the central political story of our time. McMafia will change the way we look at the world.
language: English
title: McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf