Patrick Radden Keefe

Traces the story of illegal Chinese immigrant Cheng Chui Ping, who built a multimillion-dollar human-smuggling conglomerate with direct links to a violent Chinatown gang, an organization that was exposed by New York's fabled "Jade Squad" and the FBI twelve years before Ping's conviction.

An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

The Snakehead

Life itself sometimes writes the most unique stories and this retelling, of people from China desperately trying to reach the USA by all means and others taking advantage of that, is one of this.

By telling the story of illegal immigration of Chinese from different perspectives ("snakehead", immigrants, police) Patrick Radden created a captive book.

André 

Life itself sometimes writes the most unique stories and this retelling, of people from China desperately trying to reach the USA by all means and others taking advantage of that, is one of this.

By telling the story of illegal immigration of Chinese from different perspectives ("snakehead", immigrants, police) Patrick Radden created a captive book.

Nadine 

Fascinating look at a time when USA was the promised land and people would do whatever it took to get there. How an innocuous looking grandmotherly figure could be the head of a global people-smuggling empire along with a whole dolloping of world history, insights into immigration, law and humanity.
Well worth a read. And how things have changed in the last 10-15 years!

Traces the story of illegal Chinese immigrant Cheng Chui Ping, who built a human smuggling conglomerate with links to a violent Chinatown gang, an organization that was exposed by New York's "Jade Squad" and the FBI twelve years before Ping's conviction.

The Snakehead An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

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