
Blood Brothers
Crime, Business and Politics in Asia
Bertil Lintner(Author)
Palgrave MacMillan (Publisher)
Published on 19. March 2003
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-1-4039-6154-9 (ISBN)
Description
All over Asia, bankers, gangsters, government officials and intelligence agents interact, while organized crime networks threaten the rest of the world: Russian gangsters are active in New York, Miami and California; Chinese gangs run Chinatowns all over the United States and Europe; Vietnamese mobsters have taken over the heroin trade to Australia; and the Japanese yakuza not only influence government and business at home, but chase the yen through South-East Asia and Hawaii to Australia's Gold Coast. Organized crime is one of the biggest and most complicated issues in the Asia Pacific. Both Western and Asian pundits assert that shady deals are the 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. Bertil Lintner knows this territory well.
In "Blood Brothers", he takes you inside the criminal fraternities of Asia and the Far East, 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?
In "Blood Brothers", he takes you inside the criminal fraternities of Asia and the Far East, 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?
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Gordonsville
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-6154-9 (9781403961549)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
04/2016
Palgrave MacMillan
€42.79
Available for download

Book
03/2003
Palgrave MacMillan
€42.79
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
BERTIL LINTNER has lived in Thailand since 1979. He is currently the Burma and Laos Correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has written articles for Asian, American and European publications, published several books and since 1985 has made regular contributions to The Asia Yearbook. He is widely respected as an authority on crime in Asia.
Content
A Note on Names - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Whore of the East - The City of the Name of God - The Dark Masters of Kabuki - A Country Without Limits - The Great Golden Peninsula - The Pirate Republic - Wizardry in the Land of Oz - Climbing the Mountain of Gold - Appendix: The 36 Oaths - Notes - Bibliography - Index