The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- ISBN-10
- 0307279278
- ISBN-13
- 9780307279279
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 414
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Patrick Radden Keefe
Description
Traces the story of illegal Chinese immigrant Cheng Chui Ping, who built a human smuggling conglomerate with links to a violent Chinatown gang, an organization that was exposed by New York's "Jade Squad" and the FBI twelve years before Ping's conviction.
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- 2023-02-16
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