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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.

"Keefe's account maintains the swift pace of a thriller. With the immigration debate still boiling, this exploration of how far people will go to achieve the American dream is a must-read." (starred review)

Publishers Weekly, 05/11/2009

"[THE SNAKEHEAD is] a rich, beautifully told story, so suspenseful and with so many unexpected twists that in places it reads like a John le Carré novel....This is one of the freshest accounts of modern-day migration I've read, one filled with moral ambiguity, one that doesn't pretend to have the answers, one that in these times feels like essential reading."

Alex Kotlowitz, Washington Post, 08/02/2009

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