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McMafia
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld | Misha Glenny
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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While some of the specifics might be out of date now (this book was originally published in 2009), it nevertheless remains an interesting look at how criminal organizations permeate nearly every facet of our everyday lives, controlling significant portions of the supply chains that deliver the goods and services we all use. Bonus points for opening with the story of Ilya Pavlov, a Bulgarian kingpin who was killed not long before I moved there.

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