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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

By (author) Patrick Radden Keefe

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION â€˜Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that itâ€™s all true.â€™ â€“ Time In this thrilling story of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New Yorkâ€™s Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people. In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Pingâ€™s complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them. Grand in scope yet propulsive in narrative force, The Snakehead is both a true crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America. â€˜A powerful piece of reportage about the violent underworld of New Yorkâ€™s Chinatownâ€™ - The Times

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