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Paper fan : the hunt for triad gangster Steven Wong / Terry Gould.
Van Pelt Library HV6248.W65 G68 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gould, Terry, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wong, Steven, 1964-.
- Wong, Steven.
- Triads (Organized crime)--Canada.
- Triads (Organized crime).
- Gangsters.
- Canada.
- Gangsters--Canada--Biography.
- Gangsters--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- For eleven years, Terry Gould has tracked Steven Wong, the man known as the "Paper Fan," through the organized crime circles of six countries. A thirty-nine-year-old Hong Kong-born mobster, Wong was raised in New York's Chinatown and matured into crime in Vancouver, where he founded and headed the murderous Gum Wah Gang. In 1992, Wong "died" in a traffic accident before he could be sent to jail for heroin trafficking -- conveniently just after he'd taken out a million-dollar life insurance policy. Today Interpol has a "Red Alert" arrest warrant out for Wong, and his updated file reads like a Hollywood action film -- a postmortem panorama of organized criminal adventure that circles the Pacific Rim, from Macau to Japan, from Cambodia to the Philippines.
- Contents:
- 1 The Garden of Reflection 2
- 2 The Goldstone 8
- 3 Britannia 16
- 4 Gang Wars 27
- 5 Laughing Man 43
- 6 Heaven, Earth, and Man 69
- 7 The Emperor of the North 85
- 8 Showtime 100
- 9 Project Bugs 112
- 10 Extensive Transformation and Uniting with Heaven 128
- 11 The Chink 145
- 12 The Spook 155
- 13 Steve & Patsy & Laura & Lisa 163
- 14 Project Lazarus 178
- 15 Ho! Ho! Ho! 187
- 16 Sugarland 203
- 17 Steve Found 229
- 18 Sex with Steve 242
- 19 Go Back, Jack, Do It Again 253
- 20 Beware of Cruel Dogs 278
- 21 Port of Plenty 303
- 22 The Biggest Little Town in Cambodia 319
- 23 Dawn of a New Millennium 333
- 24 The Ghost of Manila 346
- 25 "Ping" 361
- 26 Amok 378
- 27 City of the Living Dead 402
- 28 Can We Start Again, Please? 424
- Epilogue: Impunity 447.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Canada in 2004 by Random House Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1560256222
- OCLC:
- 56329047
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