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- Number of Pages: 304
- ISBN: 0385521308
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112642730
- Release Date: July 21, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #73564 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #3045 in History Books (See Top 100 History Books Bestsellers)
- #475 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Snakehead" by PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE and Patrick Radden Keefe to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Snakehead"Browse more products related to "PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE and Patrick Radden Keefe"Review"[R]iveting....Keefe illustrates the impressive intricacy of Sister Ping's criminal network while simultaneously chronicling the beastly indignities to which her customers were subjected on their hellish voyages to America....THE SNAKEHEAD is a gangland saga, but Keefe...deftly interweaves the political, legal and gunslinging strands of Sister Ping's story..." "[A] formidably well-researched book that is as much a paean to its author's industriousness as it is a chronicle of crime...Mr. Keefe has the wisdom to realize that Sister Ping, for all her flouting of American law enforcement, is not a sufficiently vivid or galvanizing figure on whom to center a book. So she becomes one of many, to the point that THE SNAKEHEAD struggles to balance the many twisting story lines that fill its pages." "[I]f one wants a true-crime book of a very high order, Keefe delivers the goods....THE SNAKEHEAD...is a brilliantly constructed police procedural-cum-courtroom drama....Keefe writes gracefully, perceptively, insightfully about a vast array of characters..." "[THE SNAKEHEAD is] a rich, beautifully told story, so suspenseful and with so many unexpected twists that in places it reads like a John le Carré novel....This is one of the freshest accounts of modern-day migration I've read, one filled with moral ambiguity, one that doesn't pretend to have the answers, one that in these times feels like essential reading." "Keefe's account maintains the swift pace of a thriller. With the immigration debate still boiling, this exploration of how far people will go to achieve the American dream is a must-read." (starred review) Publisher's noteTraces the story of illegal Chinese immigrant Cheng Chui Ping, who built a multimillion-dollar human-smuggling conglomerate with direct links to a violent Chinatown gang, an organization that was exposed by New York's fabled "Jade Squad" and the FBI twelve years before Ping's conviction. Cheng Chui Ping slipped into the United States in the early 1980s, part of a huge wave of Chinese immigrants hoping to realize the American Dream. Her path to that dream began with an underground bank for illegal immigrants run out of a noodle shop in New York City's Chinatown. She became known as Sister Ping and built a global people-smuggling conglomerate that stretched from China's Fujian province to Africa, Europe, and South America, relying on one of Chinatown's most violent gangs to protect her power and profits. AnnotationExpanding on an article he wrote for The New Yorker, Patrick Radden Keefe untangles the web of mystery surrounding "Sister Ping," a grandmother living in New York City's Chinatown who built a criminal empire based on smuggling illegal aliens into the United States. In the 1980s, Sister Ping launched an underground bank for illegal Chinese immigrants, but she soon branched out and became a "snakehead," overseeing a global smuggling network which brought illegal aliens into the country by the boatload, with the help of the most ruthless gang in Chinatown, Fuk Ching. In 1993, a ship full of Ping's "cargo" of hopeful Chinese immigrants ran aground on a beach in Queens, killing at least ten people and injuring dozens more. With tremendous detail and suspense, Keefe documents Sister Ping's surprising rise and reign, as well as the prolonged investigation following the boat crash which finally put her behind bars. If You Enjoy "The Snakehead (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Snakehead (Hardcover)" by PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE (Author) ...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! General BestsellersHistory Books Bestselling Books
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