Hello, Shadowlands

An expose of Southeast Asia's criminal underworld in the 21st century and its surprising links to the West. Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux- a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics, animals and people -and the staggering human toll that is being steadily ignored by the West. From Myanmar's anarchic hills to the swamplands of Vietnam, jihadis are being pitted against brothel workers, pet thieves against vigilantes and meth barons against Christian vice squads. Hello, Shadowlands takes a deep plunge into crime rings both large and small. It also examines how China's rise and America's decline is creating new opportunities for transnational syndicates to thrive. Focusing on human stories on both sides of this crime wave, the acclaimed Bangkok-based broadcaster and journalist Patrick Winn intimately profiles the men and women of the region who are forced to make agonizing choices in the absence of law. AUTHOR: Patrick Winn is an investigative journalist who covers rebellion and black markets in Southeast Asia. He is the author of two books: Hello Shadowlands and Narcotopia. Winn enters the worlds of guerrillas and drug traffickers to mine stories that otherwise go ignored. His work has appeared in many outlets - The New York Times, NPR, the BBC - and he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (also known as the 'poor man's Pulitzer') as well as a National Press Club award. Winn is also a three-time winner of Amnesty International's Human Rights Press Awards among other prizes.