Second Objective

Drugs, weapons, migrant labour, women - these are just a few of the many goods that effortlessly cross national borders in this globalized age, often without the knowledge or permission of the nations concerned. How is this remarkable criminal feat managed? In McMafia, internationally celebrated writer Misha Glenny crafts a fascinating, highly readable, and impressively well-researched account of the emergence of organized crime as a globalized phenomenon and shows how its secret and bloody business mirrors both the methods and the rewards of the legitimate world economy. Employing his journalistic talent and his prior experience covering organized crime in Eastern Europe, Glenny reports on his travels around the planet to investigate this worrying and worsening situation. After comprehensively surveying the criminal scene, including B.C.'s booming marijuana industry, Glenny ends by considering the future of organized crime. This is an important book that will assemble all the pieces of this worldwide puzzle for the first time. McMafia is being published simultaneously by Anansi in Canada, Knopf in the United States, and The Bodley Head in the United Kingdom.Frost, Mark is the author of 'Second Objective', published 2008 under ISBN 9781401309527 and ISBN 1401309526.