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- catalog abstract ""From pirates singing Ricky Martin songs to mob hits carried out with samurai swords, Bertil Lintner offers a fascinating look at organized crime in the Asian Pacific. Both Western and Asian pundits assert that shady deals are an Asian way of life. Some argue that corruption and illicit business ventures - gambling, prostitution, drug trafficking, gun running, oil smuggling - are entrenched parts of the Asian value system. Yet many Asian leaders maintain that their cities are safer than Sydney, Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles. Making use of expertise and knowledge gained from more than twenty years of living in Asia, Lintner exposes the role crime plays in the countries of the Far East. In Blood Brothers, he takes readers inside the criminal fraternities of Asia, examining these networks in order to answer one question: How are civil societies all over the world to be protected from the worst excesses of increasingly globalized mobsters?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12832806.
- catalog contributor b12832807.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""From pirates singing Ricky Martin songs to mob hits carried out with samurai swords, Bertil Lintner offers a fascinating look at organized crime in the Asian Pacific. Both Western and Asian pundits assert that shady deals are an Asian way of life. Some argue that corruption and illicit business ventures - gambling, prostitution, drug trafficking, gun running, oil smuggling - are entrenched parts of the Asian value system. Yet many Asian leaders maintain that their cities are safer than Sydney, Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles. Making use of expertise and knowledge gained from more than twenty years of living in Asia, Lintner exposes the role crime plays in the countries of the Far East. In Blood Brothers, he takes readers inside the criminal fraternities of Asia, examining these networks in order to answer one question: How are civil societies all over the world to be protected from the worst excesses of increasingly globalized mobsters?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [434]-443) and index.".
- catalog description "Whore of the East -- The City of the Name of God -- The dark masters of Kabuki -- A country without limits -- The Great Golden Peninsula -- The pirate republic -- Wizardry in the land of Oz -- Climbing the mountain of gold -- The 36 Oaths of China's Triad Societies.".
- catalog extent "viii, 470 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1403961549".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "Asia.".
- catalog subject "364.106 21".
- catalog subject "HV6453.A75 L56 2003".
- catalog subject "Organized crime Asia.".
- catalog subject "Organized crime Political aspects Asia.".
- catalog subject "Organized crime Prevention.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Whore of the East -- The City of the Name of God -- The dark masters of Kabuki -- A country without limits -- The Great Golden Peninsula -- The pirate republic -- Wizardry in the land of Oz -- Climbing the mountain of gold -- The 36 Oaths of China's Triad Societies.".
- catalog title "Blood brothers : the criminal underworld of Asia / Bertil Lintner.".
- catalog type "text".