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Title: The Merger : The Conglomeration of International Organized Crime by Jeffrey Robinson ISBN: 1-58567-030-8 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Organized Crime Encyclopedia
Comment: If you really want to know about the various different gangs, what their business is in, how they operate and where, then you will want this book. The author goes into details of operations used to capture, and at times not capture various transnational organized gangs. On the flip side he also describes how the gangs operate to circumvent the law, including names of major players and which cities they are located in.
Ironically when I finished reading one of the chapters on Russian Maffiya there was an article in the newpaper concerning a front company that I had read about in the book. The book covered a lot of information to the extent that when I read the article I was thinking that there was a lot missing that they either don't know about or don't want to print. Check out YBM Magnetics, read this book and find out what they don't tell you.
Rating: 3
Summary: This book could have been more concise
Comment: Jeffrey Robinson successfully makes an argument and provides evidence to give that argument credibility. In this way he has succeeded. However, most of the evidence he provides is relayed in such a way that it seems more that he is telling you a story of an experience in his past. Kind of a like a crime thriller without the suspense fiction brings. Another critique I have is that the author draws on so many different crime families/groups, etc., all the while referring to them by name only throughout the rest of the text), that it becomes fairly confusing to keep track of who's who, until you just stop caring. If i had extensive knowledge of the subject matter prior to having read the book this may have been different (perhaps that is the target audience).
His main point is that Organized Crime has changed immensely in nature since its beginnings some 40 or so years ago, and that it has grown to a point where Organized Crime Synidacates have moved from trafficking conventional arms and drugs to fissile material.
The book is worth reading if you don't get bogged down in the details and focus on this point.
Overall a good read. This is not an oft discussed subject and is something that should be given greater consideration. Four stars for concepts, 2 stars for delivery.
Rating: 5
Summary: entertaining
Comment: In The Merger, Jeffrey Robinson goes further than other books in emphasizing the increasing cooperation among disparate criminal organisations in several countries, including the Sicilian Mafiosi, the Chinese Triads, the Russian, Hungarian, and Czech "mafiyas," and organised crime groups from Columbia, Mexico, Nigeria, Thailand, and Vietnam, to name a few. Robinson is the international best-selling author of eighteen books, including the authoritative work The Laundrymen. He has served as keynote speaker on money laundering for the United Nations, Interpol, U.S. Customs, the FBI, and other organisations.
As he points out, while these groups' core activities remain the same- car theft, drug trafficking, fraud in all its guises, alien smuggling, weapons trafficking, counterfeit production and distribution, murder, kidnapping, extortion, money laundering, and the smuggling and sale of nuclear materials-organised criminals flourish in the global markets of transparent borders and meaningless trade restrictions. Unlike their predecessors, they do not limit themselves to single forms of illegal activity, but deal in anything and everything that can make money for them. Unless jurisdictional barriers can be eliminated to allow law enforcement authorities in these countries to pool information, the situation will only worsen, Robinson warns. ----Johanna Granville, Ph.D.
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Title: The Laundrymen: Inside the World's Third Largest Business by Jeffrey Robinson ISBN: 0671018043 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 |
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Title: The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads by Martin Booth ISBN: 0786708697 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Art And Science Of Money Laundering by Brett F. Woods ISBN: 0873649699 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth About Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism by Peter Lilley ISBN: 0749440341 Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Red Mafiya : How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert I. Friedman ISBN: 0316294748 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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