McMafia (Movie Tie-In) A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. 

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP.

In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld--police, victims, politicians, and even the criminals themselves. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide.

Misha Glenny is the author of Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio's Biggest Slum, DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia, and The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War (which won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1993 for Best Book on Foreign Affairs). He was a BBC Central Europe correspondent—he covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the fall of communism—and has been regularly consulted by the US and European governments on major policy issues. Glenny lives in London.