Global Mafia The New World Order of Organized Crime

Organized crime groups work in concert across language barriers, datelines, & borders to manage a vast underworld empire. Their business is drugs, money laundering, fraud, & the arms trade. And it's worth $750 billion a year. This book looks at each major group -- Italian Mafia, Japanese Yakuza, Russian thieves, Colombian cartels, & Chinese triads -- considering both its history & cases illustrating its role in the larger criminal networks. New, never-before-published information on police stings & criminal operations & facts about some of the world's most appalling crimes are exposed in stark detail.Nicaso, Antonio is the author of 'Global Mafia The New World Order of Organized Crime' with ISBN 9780788168185 and ISBN 0788168185.