Sterling,C. Thieves' World. 1994
Sterling, Claire. Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of
Organized Crime. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 304 pages.
Claire Sterling, a grandmother who lives in Tuscany and has been based
in Italy for over 30 years, is a serious investigative reporter. Many feel
that she was taken for a ride by Western disinformation sources in "The
Terror Network" (1981), which blamed international terrorism and other evils
on the KGB. But it didn't hurt her career: CIA director William Casey became
an instant fan and the book was published in 22 countries.
"Thieves' World" is as timely today as "The Terror Network" was in 1981.
It's disturbing that it took a mere thirteen years for Sterling to recast
the face of evil from the KGB to organized crime, but despite the alarmist
tone, this book appears to be solid. It's about four major international
problems -- the Russians, the Chinese Triads, the Japanese Yakuza, and
Colombia's cocaine cartels. Sterling contends that they cooperate with each
other and are getting sophisticated with laundering and reinvestments, while
many banks and financial markets are looking the other way. Most governments,
meanwhile, are powerless: central authority has collapsed in the eastern
bloc, and in the west, the European Community can't agree on how to pool
their resources, or even on standardizing laws concerning surveillance,
search and seizure, confiscation, and laundering. Considering the difficulty
of investigating this topic, Sterling does a credible job of reporting.
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