In McMafia, Misha Glenny draws the dark map that lies on the other side
of Tom Friedman's bright flat world. That connected globe not only brings
software coders and supply-chain outsourcers closer together; it's also
opened the gates to a criminal network of unsettling vastness, complexity,
and efficiency that represents a fifth of the earth's economy, trading
in everything from untaxed cigarettes and the usual narcotics to human
lives and nuclear material. Glenny's a Balkans expert, and he begins his
story there, with the illicit--but often state-sponsored--underworld that
grew out of the post-Soviet chaos, but he soon follows the contraband
everywhere from Mumbai and Johannesburg to rural Colombia and the U.S.
suburbs. It's not just a hodgepodge of scare clips, though: Glenny reports
from the ground but follows the leads as high as they go, showing how
the dark and bright sides of the flat world are more connected than
we imagine.

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