Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

by Scott D. Seligman

Book Overview

A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker)

Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas and more people were dying every...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399562273
• ISBN13: 9780399562273
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"