Patrick Radden Keefe books

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (2009)

Sister Ping, the "snakehead" human smuggler at the center of this book, earned an estimated $40 million moving illegal Chinese immigrants into the United States. This story centers around her and one boat in particular, the Golden Venture, full of Fujianese travelers seeking a better life in the...