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McMafia

A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

By: Misha Glenny

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McMafia

A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

By: Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP. In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld--police, victims, politicians, and even the criminals themselves. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide.

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Vintage

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1400095123

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9781400095124

Nemesis

One Man and the Battle for Rio

By: Misha Glenny

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Nemesis

One Man and the Battle for Rio

By: Misha Glenny

The astonishing story of an ordinary man forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down How did Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, a hardworking young father, become the king of Rocinha, the largest slum in Rio; the head of a drug cartel; and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal, known to all as “Nem”? Nemesis is the riveting account of his ruthless ascent in Rio’s terrifying underworld, his sway over its anarchic outlaw culture, and his accidental fall. Nem tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution, but he quickly found himself embroiled in a world of gold hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police officers and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees. Spanning rainforests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, Nemesis chronicles Brazil’s journey into the global spotlight—and the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio as it struggles to break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs and poverty. Nem is held at the center of it all, locked in a fight for his country’s future.

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338

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Vintage

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0385351046

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9780385351041

DarkMarket

Cyberthieves, Cybercops, and You

By: Misha Glenny

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DarkMarket

Cyberthieves, Cybercops, and You

By: Misha Glenny

An investigative reporter evaluates the capacity of the international law-enforcement community to combat cybercrime, offering insight into the personalities of online criminals and what motivates their activities.

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Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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0307592936

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9780307592934

McMafia

Seriously Organised Crime

By: Misha Glenny

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McMafia

Seriously Organised Crime

By: Misha Glenny

Riveting . . . ["McMafia"] provides insightful sociological perspectives about why certain nations spawn especially widespread and virulent organized crime networks--"The Seattle Times." photographs.

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Random House

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0099481251

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9780099481256

McMafia

Crime Without Frontiers

By: Misha Glenny

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McMafia

Crime Without Frontiers

By: Misha Glenny

In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan and many more.During his investigation of the dark side, he has spoken to countless gangsters, policemen and victims of organised crime while also exploring the ferocious consumer demand for drugs, trafficked women, illegal labour and arms across five continents. The journey begins with an appalling and inexplicable murder in England's stockbroker belt and continues with stories that are often horrifying, sometimes inspiring, usually bizarre and occasionally funny. But together they build a breathtaking picture of the shadow economy that has grown so fast that it may now account for about 20% of the world's GDP. Usually the preserve of sensationalist reporting in the tabloid press, organised crime has seeped into our lives in so many ways and often without our knowledge. This consistently riveting account unveils the nature of crime in today's world but it also offers profound insights into the pitfalls of a globalisation where the rules dividing the legal from the illegal are often far from clear. McMafia unpicks the nexus of crime, politics and money worldwide which have become entangled and interdependent in entirely novel forms since the 1980s. It argues that conventional policing methods are no longer appropriate to deal with a problem whose roots lie in global poverty and the ever widening divisions between rich and poor.

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426

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1847920071

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9781847920072

DarkMarket

How Hackers Became the New Mafia

By: Misha Glenny

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DarkMarket

How Hackers Became the New Mafia

By: Misha Glenny

This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every criminal’s dream. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security—sharing our thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives with anyone who might care to relieve us of them? In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international best seller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: cybercrime, cyberwarfare and cyberindustrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible and often supersmart new breed of criminal: the hacker. Glenny has traveled and trawled the world. By exploring the rise and fall of the criminal website DarkMarket he has uncovered the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories. Whether JiLsi or Matrix, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Scunthorpe, England, or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Glenny has tracked down and interviewed all the players—the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims—and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history. The result is simply unputdownable. DarkMarket is authoritative and completely engrossing. It’s a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times.

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Vintage

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0307700550

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9780307700551

The Hunt for Lord Cyric

An eShort Follow-Up to DarkMarket

By: Misha Glenny

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The Hunt for Lord Cyric

An eShort Follow-Up to DarkMarket

By: Misha Glenny

In DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You, Misha Glenny plunged into the murky depths of the world’s most notorious carder fraud site, DarkMarket. In this exclusive short eBook, he takes you even deeper into that world. In the realm of the cyberthief, your best friend can be your worst enemy, or worse still, undercover law enforcement. The Hunt for Lord Cyric: An eShort Follow-Up to DarkMarket uncovers the trail of the most elusive cyberthief of all. In doing so, Glenny unveils some of his investigative methods, explores new lines of inquiry and tries to untangle the web at the black heart of the Internet. A unique supplement to DarkMarket, this eBook delves further into the most compelling crime story of the year.

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McMafia

A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

By: Misha Glenny

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McMafia

A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

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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?From gun runners in the Ukraine, to money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan, and the booming marijuana industry in western Canada, McMafia builds a breathtaking picture of a secret and bloody business.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, Glenny ends by considering the future of organized crime. McMafia is an important book that assembles all the pieces of this worldwide puzzle for the first time.

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402

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House of Anansi

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0887848184

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9780887848186

The Fall of Yugoslavia

The Third Balkan War, Third Revised Edition

By: Misha Glenny

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The Fall of Yugoslavia

The Third Balkan War, Third Revised Edition

By: Misha Glenny

“Vigorous, passionate, humane, and extremely readable. . . For an account of what has actually happened. . . Glenny’s book so far stands unparalleled.”—The New Republic The fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis—and the ensuing war—for those around the world who have watched the battle unfold with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion. When Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence in June 1991, peaceful neighbors of four decades took up arms against each other once again and a savage war flared in the Balkans. The underlying causes go back to business left unfinished by both the Second and First World Wars. In this acclaimed book, now revised and updated with a new chapter on the Dayton Accords and the subsequent U.S. involvement, Misha Glenny offers a sobering eyewitness chronicle of the events that rekindled the violent conflict, a lucid and impartial analysis of the politics behind them, and incisive portraits of the main personalities involved. Above all, he shows us the human realities behind the headlines, and puts in its true, historical context one of the most ferocious civil wars of our time.

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Penguin

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0140257713

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9780140257717

The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2012

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By: Misha Glenny

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The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2012

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By: Misha Glenny

From the bestselling author of McMafia and DarkMarket comes this unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century which gives readers the essential historical background to more than one hundred years of events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Now updated to include the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, the capture of all indicted war criminals from the Yugoslav wars and each state's quest for legitimacy in the European Union, The Balkans explores the often catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the Great Powers, raising some disturbing questions about Western intervention.

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House of Anansi

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1770892745

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9781770892743

The Balkans

Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011

By: Misha Glenny

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The Balkans

Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011

By: Misha Glenny

A newly revised and updated edition of an award-winning BBC correspondent's magisterial history of the Balkan region This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to more than one hundred years of events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Now updated to include the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, the capture of all indicted war criminals from the Yugoslav wars, and each state's quest for legitimacy in the European Union, The Balkans explores the often catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the Great Powers, raising some disturbing questions about Western intervention.

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Penguin

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0142422568

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9780142422564

The Hunt for Lord Cyric

An eShort Follow-Up to DarkMarket

By: Misha Glenny

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An eShort Follow-Up to DarkMarket

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DarkerMarket

The Hunt for Lord Cyric

By: Misha Glenny

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DarkerMarket

The Hunt for Lord Cyric

By: Misha Glenny

DarkerMarket, the special e-book extra that is the perfect companion to Misha Glenny's DarkMarket, follows the trail of Lord Cyric, the elusive cyber criminal suspected to be living in Canada. In doing so, Glenny unveils some of his investigative methods, explores new lines of inquiry and tries to untangle the web at the black heart of the Internet. This e-book extra delves further into the most compelling crime story of the year. For the full version, as well as further details on cyber criminals and how to protect yourself, read DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You.

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The Balkans

Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011

By: Misha Glenny

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The Balkans

Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011

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This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to recent events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Misha Glenny presents a lucid and fair-minded account of each national group in the Balkans and its struggle for statehood. The narrative is studded with sharply observed portraits of kings, guerrillas, bandits, generals, and politicians. Glenny also explores the often-catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the Great Powers, raising some disturbing questions about Western intervention.

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1101610999

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9781101610992

DarkerMarket

The Hunt for Lord Cyric

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The Hunt for Lord Cyric

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The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2012

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By: Misha Glenny

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The Balkans, 1804–2012

Nationalism, War and the Great Powers

By: Misha Glenny

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The Balkans, 1804–2012

Nationalism, War and the Great Powers

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In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed, invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define our understanding of the south-eastern edge of Europe. In doing so, he reveals that groups we think of as implacable enemies have, over the centuries, formed unlikely alliances, thereby disputing the idea that conflict in the Balkans is the ineluctable product of ancient grudges. And he exposes the often-catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the rest of Europe, raising profound questions about recent Western intervention. Updated to cover the last decade's brutal conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia, the surge of organised crime in the region, the rise of Turkey and the rocky road to EU membership, The Balkans remains the essential and peerless study of Europe's most complex and least understood region.

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