EMPIRE OF CRIME: ORGANISED CRIME IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Book ID/图书代码： 00530011B48525
English Summary/英文概要： Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results. In 1905, British Liberal reformers radically reduced the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a century of high-earning drug smuggling began. The age of narcotics gang lords—which we still live in today—can be said to date from this decision.
Criminal producers in other countries, including Japan, exploited the prohibition and drug gang wars broke out across South-East Asia. It was the greatest gift to organised crime given by the well-meaning people of the British Empire—having the same effect on filling its coffers with money as the American Prohibition on alcohol did in the 1920s.
In the style of an Imperial McMafia, this book reveals the impact early organised crime had on Britons and Americans at home—the businessmen and celebrities who died from overdosing drugs supplied by Asian dealers—and the thousands of new addicts.
It introduces the reader to a whole new collection of crime-busting heroes, such as:
- Pioneering narcotics-investigator Major-General Russell Pasha, Commandant of the Cairo City police force and founder of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau
- Harry J Anslinger, first chief of the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics and relentless adversary of drug-smuggling from within the British Empire
- Tough Pashto-fluent North-West Frontier police chief Lt-Colonel Roos-Keppel, nemesis of Afghan criminal gangs.
Documents uncovered in archives for this book reveal some newsworthy stories:
- Newly uncovered documents show how Triad Chinese gangs in South-East Asia played off communists against nationalists as they forged an unholy alliance with the Allies in the Second World War.
- Secret government reports reveal how imperial administrators feared the impact of illicit drugs on imperial rule and how ‘loopholes’ were sought to ensure the trade of narcotics between colonies.
- Foreign Office letter of February 1957 pinpoints the beginning of Afghanistan becoming a major exporter of illicit opium and narcotics.
- Tabloid stories about early celebrity casualties of the new drugs culture.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有的时候，最好的打算可能意味着最坏的结果。1905年，英国自由主义改革者急剧减少印度对中国的鸦片出口，结果却导致鸦片的国际价格骤然飙升，并且开启了长达一个世纪具有高额利润的鸦片走私贸易活动。我们现在依然生活在的毒品团伙首领时代，可以说是源自这一个决定。
包括日本在内等其他国家的很多刑事罪犯滥用禁令，于是，跨越整个东南亚的毒贩集团战争爆发了。善意的大英帝国民众对于这些有组织犯罪的最大赠礼就是将他们的钱库塞满，就像20世纪20年代美国酒精禁令所带来的效果几乎一模一样。
以黑道帝国的风格，本书揭示了早期有组织犯罪对英美国家的影响，很多商人和名人因过度沉溺于亚洲商人供应的毒品而丧生，而有成千上万的人却对毒品的危害视而不见，前仆后继般得踏上了这条死亡之路。
本书会像读者一一介绍破获这些罪犯的英雄们，例如：
毒品研究员先驱，拉塞尔.巴夏，开罗城市警察机关司令员，中央毒品情报局创建人
哈利 J. 安斯林格，美国联邦毒品调查局首席
本书的文件档案中还有还揭露了一些非常具有新闻价值的故事。
东南亚地区的中国黑帮
政府的秘密报告
1957年2月外交部的信函
小报上关于早期名人死亡的故事...(兼职翻译FSF)
Awards/获奖情况：阿富汗关口的枪支走私，活跃在西北边疆的盗匪，在荒漠绿洲苏丹警察与阿拉伯毒贩之间令人毛骨悚然的枪战--这些都是大英帝国的历史史册中鲜有体现的一面。而在大英帝国的全盛时期，他们控制着全世界巨大的财富，恶习、腐败和犯罪的风气比现在有过之而无不及。本书像所有的犯罪小说一样令人着迷，是对殖民地黑暗历史的完全曝光。--Ian Knight, author of Zulu Rising Tim Newark对于大英帝国时期执法机构的生动描述将会征服所有读者。他将那个时代抓获毒贩的国际警察的光辉形象带入我们的视野。--Andrew Roberts
Newark将会揭开被历史学家刻意掩盖的大英帝国历史真相的沉重幕帘--Glasgow Herald 。
Tim Newark应该被称之为英国最顶级的历史学家之一。---Daily Mail
About the Author/作者介绍： Tim Newark的其他作品包括《高地》（Highlander ）以及即将由圣马丁出版的《查理.卢西亚诺》（Lucky Luciano），还有备受赞誉的《黑手党战争》（The Mafia at War ）以及《伪装》（Camouflage）。Tim Newark还是最顶级的军事杂志Military Illustrated的编辑。他还曾经担任Nugus/Martin Productions的编剧和历史顾问，制作了7部电视纪录片系列，参与编写了电视连续剧《希特勒的卫士》（Hitler’s Bodyguard）的其中13集，还为《金融时报》、《每日电讯报》以及Time Out贡献了很多书评。 Tim Newark is author of Highlander (Constable) and the forthcoming Lucky Luciano (St Martin’s Press). He is also author of the critically acclaimed The Mafia at War (UK)/ Mafia Allies (US), and Camouflage (Thames & Hudson), the book accompanying the Imperial War Museum exhibition. He is editor of Military Illustrated, the leading military history monthly magazine. He has worked as scriptwriter and historical consultant for Nugus/Martin Productions, resulting in seven TV documentary series, including co-writing the 13-part TV series Hitler’s Bodyguard. He has contributed book reviews to the Financial Times, Time Out, and Daily Telegraph.
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