The Snakehead

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In 1993, a boat carrying 300 near-starving illegal immigrants from China ran aground off the coast of New York, an event that led to a criminal investigation that uncovered an international human smuggling ring run by an unlikely crime boss—a middle-aged grandmother known as Sister Ping. Patrick Radden Keefe’s true-crime thriller The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream reveals this secret world of gang violence, underground crime, and human smuggling, as well as the 10-year investigation that uncovered it.

Event: Patrick Radden Keefe will be reading, answering questions, and signing books
Tuesday, July 21st, at 7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble
396 Avenue of the Americas, at 8th Street

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