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Author Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-

Title The snakehead [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream / Patrick Radden Keefe.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2009]
©2009
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System Details Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2217 KB).
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Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Pilgrims -- Leaving Fujian -- Eighteen-thousand-dollar woman -- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching -- Swiftwater -- Year of the snake -- Mombasa -- The phantom ship -- The Teaneck massacre -- Mutiny in the Atlantic -- A well-founded fear -- The fat man -- Freedom birds -- The goldfish and the Great Wall -- Parole -- Snakeheads international -- Catching Lilly Zhang -- The mother of all Snakeheads.
Subject Human trafficking -- United States.
Illegal aliens -- United States.
Human smuggling -- United States.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Genre Electronic books.
ISBN 9780385530217 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
0385530218 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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