Book description
In this powerful account, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through
the new world of international organised crime. He has travelled
throughout the world - from Japan to China to Brazil to the USA and
has spoken to countless gangsters, policemen and victims of organised
crime while also exploring the ferocious consumer demand for drugs,
trafficked women, illegal labour and arms across five continents.
McMafia Brain Shot focuses on cybercrime in Brazil and
people trafficking from China to Brazil, the UK and Europe and unpicks
the nexus of crime, politics and money worldwide which have become
entangled and interdependent in entirely novel forms since the 1980s.
It argues that conventional policing methods are no longer appropriate
to deal with a problem whose roots lie in global poverty and the ever
widening divisions between rich and poor.
BRAIN SHOTS: The byte-sized account of international crime and
globalisation's dark side
Misha Glenny is a distinguished journalist and historian. As the
Central Europe Correspondent first for The Guardian and then for the
BBC, he chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former
Yugoslavia. He has won several major awards for his work, including the
Sony Gold Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting. The author
of three books on Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he has been regularly
consulted by the US and European governments on major policy issues and
ran an NGO for three years, assisting with the reconstruction of Serbia,
Macedonia and Kosovo. He now lives in London.
