Volume 47, Number 18 · November 16, 2000
The Russians Are Coming!
By Raymond Bonner
Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America
by Robert I. Friedman
Little, Brown, 296 pp., $25.95
Robert Friedman's book is the first to describe in detail the Russian mobsters who have established criminal enterprises throughout the world. His prose sometimes makes it sound like a sequel to Pulp Fiction. A Russian killer in Brooklyn murders a boy, he writes, 'by picking him up like a ragdoll with one hand and plunging a knife into his heart with the other.' But more than any other reporter he reveals how sophisticated, ruthless, rich, and multinational Russian criminals have become.
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