Blood brothers
Subtitle: the criminal underworld of Asia
By: Bertil Lintner.
Edition: 1st Palgrave Macmillan ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Organized crime -- Asia.; Organized crime -- Prevention.; Organized crime -- Political aspects -- Asia.
Description: "From pirates singing Ricky Martin songs to mob hits carried out with samurai swords, Bertil Lintner offers a fascinating look at organized crime in the Asian Pacific. Both Western and Asian pundits assert that shady deals are an Asian way of life. Some argue that corruption and illicit business ventures - gambling, prostitution, drug trafficking, gun running, oil smuggling - are entrenched parts of the Asian value system. Yet many Asian leaders maintain that their cities are safer than Sydney, Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles. Making use of expertise and knowledge gained from more than twenty years of living in Asia, Lintner exposes the role crime plays in the countries of the Far East. In Blood Brothers, he takes readers inside the criminal fraternities of Asia, examining these networks in order to answer one question: How are civil societies all over the world to be protected from the worst excesses of increasingly globalized mobsters?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. [434]-443) and index.
Previously published in 2002 by Allen & Unwin.