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Award-winning journalist - and author of Hello, Shadowlands - Patrick Winn reveals the inside story of a forbidden republic - the narco-state of the WaThe jagged mountains dividing China and Burma belong to the Wa, an indigenous group who have outwitted the CIA to create the world's mightiest narco-state, controlling more territory than Israel and with more troops than Sweden. Are they crime lords? Or visionaries?Wa State has become a real nation with its own highways, anthems, schools and flags. Its leaders promise a utopia, using profits from trafficking heroin and meth to attain what China's other frontier peoples, Tibetans and Uighurs, can only dream of: a state of their own. Patrick Winn (author of Hello, Shadowlands) embarks on a risky journey of discovery, chasing clues about the forbidden republic from Thailand to Burma to the secretive Wa State itself.

Book details

• Full title: Narcotopia
• Subtitle: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Outwitted the CIA
• Author: Patrick Winn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781785789731
• ID: 44127985
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Weight: 600 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 153 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. January 2024

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