McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny (2009-04-07) - Softcover

MISHA GLENNY is a British journalist and specialist on Eastern and Southeastern Europe and international organized crime. His coverage of the fall of Communism led to his first book, The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy. His other highly acclaimed books are The Fall of Yugoslavia and The Balkans. Glenny has also written for the New York Times, the New York Book Review, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, the London Review of Books, and other publications. He is currently a political consultant on South Eastern Europe and divides his time between London, Brighton, and the region.

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...[McMafia is] a vividly recounted journey through a dozen of the world's most potent gangs, cartels and transnational mafias... (Wall Street Journal 2008-04-01)

...[McMafia] is a fascinating, highly readable take on the world's crime syndicates. (Vancouver Sun 2008-04-01)

...[McMafia] is crowded with the world's most ruthless and forward-thinking outlaws...[and] sets out to show how the process of globalization has given birth to a planet-spanning network of organized crime that mimics the growth, complexity, and entrepreneurial know-how of the legitimate economy. (Straight.com 2008-04-01)

...Glenny makes an effective case for [organized crime] becoming a truly global force... (Toronto Star 2008-04-01)

...horrifying but gripping...vivid and involving... (Daily Telegraph 2008-04-01)

...Immensely informative and more than slightly scary... (Washington Post 2008-04-01)

...sprawling, ambitious...[McMafia is] a reporting odyssey...its thesis is clear, compelling, and scary: the West may have declared war on terrorism, but organized crime is by far the more serious threat to our world today and one we ignore at our peril...Glenny's journey through the international underworld is, on the whole, a rich and illuminating one. (Christian Science Monitor 2008-04-01)

...demonstrating Glenny's courage, [McMafia] exhibits...characteristics of special importance...he provides insightful sociological perspectives... (Seattle Times 2008-04-01)

...immensely informative and more than slightly scary book describes in all too vivid detail...Glenny tells the dispiriting story...[and] locates both the problem and its solution... (Washington Post 2008-05-01)

[McMafia is a]...wildly ambitious tour of organized crime in the era of globalization. (New York Times 2008-04-01)