A review by davechua
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe

5.0

Superb non-fiction book about how Sister Ping, a grandmother residing in New York's Chinatown, became one of the biggest human smugglers of her time. Tying together the Tiananmen crackdown, gun-toting chinese teenagers who appear to have taken their cue from John Woo films, US immigration law, it's a remarkably well-investigated look into the world of human smuggling and the lengths people would go to find a better life.