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Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
ISBN:
9781529099928
Bind Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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The Snakehead
234(Ht mm) 153(Wdt mm) 432
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at <i>The New Yorker</i> and the author of <i>Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty</i> (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), <i>Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland</i>, as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books, <i>The Snakehead</i>, and <i>Chatter</i>. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast <i>Wind of Change</i> on the origins of the Scorpions’ power ballad, which <i>The Guardian</i> named the #1 podcast of 2020. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York. The sweeping history of the American dream, Manhattan's Chinatown underbelly and the grandma mastermind behind one of the largest human smuggling rings. <b>‘Reads like a mashup of <i>The Godfather </i>and <i>Chinatown</i>, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.’ <i>Time</i></b> In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of <i>Empire of Pain</i> investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people. In <i>The Snakehead</i>, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping’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, <i>The Snakehead</i> is both a kaleidoscopic crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.