McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Borzoi Books)
 

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

by Misha Glenny

Amazon Significant Seven, April 2008: In McMafia, Misha Glenny draws the dark map that lies on the other side of Tom Friedman's bright flat world. That connected globe not only brings software coders and supply-chain outsourcers closer together; it's also opened the gates to a criminal network of unsettling vastness, complexity, and efficiency that represents a fifth of the earth's economy,... (read more)

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Engrossing look at criminal groups around the globe. Does a great job of cutting through the locally unique entertaining, sometimes endearing stereotypes of the individual local groups(their seedy glamour, the loyalty/brotherhood thing) to see the underlying, less appealing similarities among them.

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