- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (1 Sep 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845967615
- ISBN-13: 978-1845967611
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.4 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 403,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An epic account of the global fight against organised crime in the early twentieth century
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Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results.
In 1908, British reformers banned the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a century of lucrative drug smuggling began. Criminal producers in other countries exploited the prohibition and gang wars broke out across South-East Asia. It was the greatest gift the British Empire gave to organised crime.
Empire of Crime introduces the reader to a whole new collection of heroes and villains, including pioneering narcotics investigator Russell Pasha, commandant of the Cairo police force; master criminal Du Yue-Sheng, drug lord of the Shanghai underworld; and tough North-West Frontier police chief Lieutenant-Colonel Roos-Keppel, nemesis of Afghan criminal gangs.
Tim Newark weaves hidden reports, secret government files and personal letters together with first-hand accounts to tell the epic story of a global fight against organised crime.
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