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McMafia

Seriously Organised Crime

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McMafia

By: Misha Glenny
Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
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About this listen

Random House presents the audiobook edition of McMafia by Misha Glenny, read by Stephen Thorne.

Now a major BBC series.

Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam?

Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through the new world of international organised crime, from gunrunners in Ukraine to money launderers in Dubai, by way of drug syndicates in Canada and cyber criminals in Brazil.

©2009 Misha Glenny (P)2011 Penguin Audio Organized Crime Social Sciences True Crime

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Critic reviews

"Like a journalistic Indiana Jones he has travelled the world in search of his prey, displaying impressive stamina, intellectual chutzpah and physical bravery on the way.... This is the most important non-fiction book of the year so far - organised crime's version of Fast Food Nation." ( Mail on Sunday)
"To be regarded as one of the essential non-fiction works of our time. Exhaustively researched and reported, it's sobering in the extreme, but also riveting, filled with exotic locations, staggering facts, acts of incredible brutality and colourful, if deadly, characters.... Anyone with even the smallest interest in how the world really works should read this book." ( GQ)
"The great merit of Glenny's book is that it does not just chronicle the foul deeds of international crime syndicates. It probes the imbalances and injustices that propel people and nations towards criminal behaviour... This, racy, well-researched and highly entertaining book should be essential reading for law reformers everywhere." ( Irish Times)
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Strong on the collapse of Yugoslavia and E. Europe. OK on Russia and the FSU. Weaker in C.America and China and cyber crime (albeit viewed through a decade old prism).

His central thesis, which emerges later in the book, of a failure to regulate and police regulations resonates well in 2018.

We should all consider our own role in facilitating the proceeds of crime.

Starts Well and then peters out

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Don't bury your head in the sand. This stuff is very scary, but as another reviewer said, if you want to know what's REALLY going on in the world listen to this. This isn't some barking conspiracy theory, but the fruit of dogged spade work by a top class investigative journalist. Along with the jaw dropping scale of organised crime worldwide, you learn a lot about the visible world of politics and why parts of the world have got into the mess they have. First rate text delivered by the authoritative voice of old BBC hand, Stephen Thorne.

Don't Bury your head in the sand.

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Interesting expose on the globalisation of crime. Also, good to hear Steven Toast is still working

my mind is all about crime. worldwide

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a well researched and highly educational and informative insight into the world of organised crime that lies all around us and impacts individuals and whole economies alike.

fantastic insight into organised crime

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Very revealing.. the book goes indepth into the modern history of organised crime, and the corrupt governments who allow it.

great stuff

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Slightly dated now but just mesmerising. The amount of time put into research really shines through.

Fascinating and alarming in equal measure

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Informed. Wide ranging. Upsetting. Excellent. A brilliantly narrated cross section of global organised criminal enterprise.

The lot...

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A complicated subject easily understood via this excellent reading. It should be compulsory for world politicians, then they might act. Crime, mainly smuggling, is big business going on under our noses. A highly recommended listen. Don’t be deceived by the cover, this is not the same as the TV series. Far better.

Opening a door into a hidden world

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If you really want to understand how wealth disparity has grown so enormously in the last couple of decades, here is part of the answer. Once read it’s nice to dip back into a chapter occasionally as a reminder. Good, clear performance- just what you’d like from an audiobook.

Bit of a classic

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You will learn so much about the everyday things we all do but have no idea their consequences of. I wish there is an 2nd book covering the period after 2007.

Fascinating look at the world through a prism

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