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The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon on the Triads Hardback - 2000

by Martin Booth

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What began more than two thousand years ago in China has culminated, according to UN sources, in potentially the greatest criminal threat the world has ever known. From San Francisco to Amsterdam to Bangkok to Johannesburg, the Chinese Triads today engage in extortion, gambling, international prostitution, illegal immigrant smuggling, money laundering, fraud, corruption, arms, and narcotics.

Originally little more than societies founded on mutual self-interest, the Triads have evolved into an international criminal fraternity bound by archaic oaths and quasireligious rituals that can visit on transgressors and opponents the "death by a thousand cuts". Patriots as weld as outlaws, they have counted Sun Yat-sen, the father of modern China, and Chiang Kai-shek in their ranks. They instigated the Tong Wars in America, fought with the Allies against the Japanese in Malaya, colluded with the CIA in Vietnam, and escalated the heroin trade to Europe and the United States.

Martin Booth here unfolds in full the astonishing history of the Triads. And he has survived to tell the tale.

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  • Title The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon on the Triads
  • Author Martin Booth
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date August 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780786707355 / 0786707356
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.68 x 1.49 in (23.70 x 16.97 x 3.78 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.106

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Traces the more than two-thousand-year history of the Triads, the one-time Chinese secret society that has evolved into an international criminal fraternity, bound by ritual and archaic oaths, involved in world-wide extortion, gambling, prostitution, money laundering, fraud, narcotics, immigrant smuggling, and other criminal enterprises.
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