The Snakehead
Subtitle: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: July 21, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780385521307
Subjects: Biographies & Memoirs -- Specific Groups -- Criminals; History -- Asia -- China; History -- World; Nonfiction -- Current Events; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Emigration & Immigration; Nonfiction -- True Accounts -- Organized Crime; Nonfiction -- True Accounts -- True Crime
Description: 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.