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A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime bossIn the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up with little money but with an intense work ethic and an unshakeable belief in the promise of the United States.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Patrick Radden Keefe
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Anchor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307279279
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Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. He started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written articles about the chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain, the hunt for the drug lord Chapo Guzman, the tragic personal history of the mass shooter Amy Bishop, and the role that the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma played in sparking the opioid cris
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