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"Strange Trade" tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison--and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal perspective to the account of these women's lives, and offers a nuanced understanding of the global context within which African women are entering the drug trade in ever-increasing numbers. "Strange Trade" follows Pauline and Mary as they traverse three continents, survive wars, poverty, and shattered families, secure drug shipments, and commit murder. Angel-Ajani paints rich, intimate, and profoundly surprising portraits without glamorizing, sanitizing, or offering judgment. The result is an unvarnished journey into a world that, until now, has remained hidden; and a glimpse into the motives that led these women to risk--and ultimately lose--everything.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Strange Trade
• Subtitle: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade
• Author: Asale Angel-Ajani
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9781580053136
• ID: 09241772
• Publisher: Seal Press
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2010

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