McMafia : a journey through the global criminal underworld
Misha Glenny (Author)
"With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the world-wide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP."--Cover
Print Book, English, 2009
First Vintage books edition View all formats and editions
Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2009
xx, 375 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780525564430, 9781400095124, 0525564438, 1400095123
236339908
Foreword to the Vintage edition
Introduction
pt. I. The fall of communism
Death of an American
Bloody lucre
The Mafiya : midwives of capitalism
Spreading the word
pt. II. Gold, money, diamonds, and banks
Aliyah
Xanadu I
Xanadu II
The theater of crime
Black and white
pt. III. Drugs and cybercrime
Buddies
March of fear
Code Orange
pt. IV. The future of organized crime
The overunderworld
The future of organized crime
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
A note on sources
Index