Blood Brothers
The Criminal Underworld of Asia
Published on 30. April 2016
VIII, 470 pages
978-1-137-06294-9 (ISBN)
Description
From pirates singing Ricky Martin to mob hits carried out with samurai swords, Bertil Lintner offers a fascinating look at organized crime in the Asia 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 gained from twenty years of living in Asia, Lintner exposes the role crime plays in the countries of the Far East. In Blood Brothers , he takes you inside the criminal fraternities of Asia, examining these networks and their past histories in order to answer one question: How are civil societies all over the world to be protected from the worst excesses of increasingly globalised mobsters?
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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
