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15 lip 2009 · This book explores the history of Chinese immigration to America and how in the 1980s and early 1990s lucrative smuggling rings, known as the snakehead trade, brought thousands of illegal immigrants into the USA.
Grand in scope yet propulsive in narrative force, The Snakehead is both a kaleidoscopic crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.
27 lip 2010 · Review. A Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post. “Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.”.
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12 lut 2023 · Subscriber Only Books Review. The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe: A timely, powerful read. Book details the flight of undocumented Chinese migrants to the US in the 1990s. Expand. A fishing...
21 lip 2009 · A well-told, panoramic international true-crime adventure. Expanding on his intriguing New Yorker article, Keefe (Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping, 2005) tells the story of a multimillion-dollar smuggling ring that ferried illegal immigrants from China to New York City in the 1980s and early ’90s.
13 sie 2009 · “The Snakehead,” then, is a brilliantly constructed police procedural-cum-courtroom drama with a hole in its soul. Keefe writes gracefully, perceptively, insightfully about a vast array of...
