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The Golden Triangle Kingpin: Wei Hsueh-kang and the Methamphetamine Network

by Vittorio Mancini
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798198026506
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 146
  • Original Price: USD 19.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 186 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criminals & Outlaws

In the shadows of Southeast Asia's mountains, where borders blur and governments struggle to reach, one man helped transform the global drug trade. The Golden Triangle Kingpin traces the rise of Wei Hsueh-kang - the elusive architect behind one of the world's most powerful narcotics empires.

From the fading heroin routes of the old opium economy to the industrial-scale production of methamphetamine known as "ice," this book uncovers how the Golden Triangle reinvented itself for the twenty-first century. At the center stood Wei Hsueh-kang: businessman, militia financier, intelligence target, and one of the most wanted narco-traffickers in modern history. Protected by geography, insurgent alliances, and the political complexity of Myanmar's Shan State, he built a network that stretched from jungle laboratories to the streets of Bangkok, Sydney, Tokyo, and beyond.

Drawing from DEA intelligence assessments, UN reports, Thai narcotics investigations, Treasury sanctions records, and years of investigative journalism, Vittorio Mancini reconstructs the machinery of a hidden empire that governments have spent decades trying to dismantle. This is not only the story of one man, but of a region where war, survival, and organized crime fused into a parallel economy worth billions.

A chilling examination of power beyond the reach of the state, The Golden Triangle Kingpin exposes the modern narcotics trade at its most sophisticated - and most untouchable.

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