400pp+illus. For the last three centuries wherever the Chinese have emigrated they have taken their secret brotherhoods. What began as little more than mutual self-interest societies have evolved into efficient, ruthless international fraternities known as Triads. They control an empire of extortion, gambling, smuggling, money laundering, corruption, arms, narcotics and more. The full and incredible story of their evolution, history, key figures and spread into almost every type of crime, posing one of the greatest criminal threats the world has ever known. Bibliography and Index.

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