An expose of Southeast Asia's criminal underworld in the 21st century and its surprising links to the West.
Patrick Winn is an award-winning American journalist who covers
crime in Southeast Asia. His work has appeared on NBC News, The
Atlantic, the BBC and other outlets.
Currently the Asia correspondent for Public Radio International,
each week Winn's voice is heard by millions on NPR stations. Since
2008, he has lived in Bangkok and reported almost exclusively on
Southeast Asia.
Brilliantly crafted and thrilling to read. This is a page turner
with soul - an evocative tour through places that are too often
ignored.'
*Tom Vitale, director of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown*
Avoiding both sensationalism and moralizing, Patrick Winn takes his
reader with somber elegance into Southeast Asia's criminal
underworld - and from more interesting perspectives than the usual
drug dealers and traffickers. Here is a world as rich,
contradictory and strange as any that one could think of.'
*Lawrence Osborne, author of Beautiful Animals and Bangkok
Days*
In Hello, Shadowlands, Patrick Winn writes in a vibrant, readable
style, uses years of hardcore field reporting and adds
thought-provoking analysis to expose a side of global crime that we
all need to better understand. His vivid descriptions take you deep
into surreal and at times heartbreaking worlds but he also steps
away to give wider meaning to these tales and their place in the
economic and political systems. Anyone who wants to make sense of
the dark side of modern global capitalism needs to read it.'
*Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords*
Through a gripping narrative, Patrick Winn takes the reader on
first-hand tour of Southeast Asia's underworld - from the meth dens
of Myanmar's rugged Kachin State to Manila's fetid slums where
Duterte's drug war has killed thousands, all the way to Central
Vietnam where village mobs have murdered drug-addicted dog meat
thieves. As Southeast Asia's villages empty and its cities swell,
the region seems caught in a bitter struggle between the powerful
syndicates who control the $31 billion methamphetamine traffic and
desperate citizen vigilantes who are determined to break the drug's
grip by any means necessary. Through vivid character portraits and
deft anecdotes, Winn offers the reader an intimate, indelible
portrait of a major world region in the throes of serious social
change.'
*Alfred W. McCoy, author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity
in the Global Drug Trade*
Drawing on a decade of on-the-ground reporting in Southeast Asia,
Patrick Winn gives us a rare window into the subterranean depths of
the region's $100 billion organized crime underworld. Winn takes us
from the narco-empires of Myanmar's war-torn north to the slums of
Manila, where crime rings peddle phony birth control elixirs to
desperate young women. Hello, Shadowlands is a sweeping work of
investigative journalism that reads like a thriller you can't put
down. Winn's reporting on the men and women who run the region's
underworld is both sensitive and incisive. He demonstrates how the
breakneck economic growth that has lifted so many fortunes in
Southeast Asia has also set the stage for a new golden age of drug
trafficking - aided by corruption, despotism and the absence of
law. Hello, Shadowlands is a quintessential read for anyone who
wants to understand the dark side of Southeast Asia's economic
gains.'
*Megha Rajagopalan, China bureau chief, Buzzfeed News*
Not inappropriately billed as Fear and Loathing meets McMafia, this
is a compelling expose of Southeast Asia's criminal underworld, and
the dark underbelly of some popular holiday destinations by an
award-winning US journalist resident in Thailand. Reporting from
Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, he tells the often
deeply moving human stories behind the organized crime and
corruption rife in the region, whether it be the massive trade in
candy-colored meth, or hostesses trained by the North Korean
regime. I found the chapters on Myanmar particularly illuminating
in the light of recent headlines about that troubled country.'
*The Bookseller*
So addictive that it has me chasing down everything else he has
written .... It's hard to say what is more potent in Hello,
Shadowlands: Winn's rich characterisation, his canny reportage or
the way his interrogation of the past illuminates 21st-century
Southeast Asia and its criminal networks.'
*South China Morning Post*
Winn's journalistic skills remain firmly in charge throughout ...
an intelligent and timely glimpse into a region of the world
rapidly growing in importance, and ensures you'll never think about
Southeast Asia in the same way ever again.'
*Geographical*
Great Read....It's a fascinating piece of journalism and Winn makes
sure the subjects of his interviews and the overarching political,
cultural and sometimes religious atmosphere they live under take
the spotlight.'
*Belfast Telegraph*
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