The Flag Racket

Once again, we're gonna use our platform here to highly recommend The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe's non-fiction account of the 1993 Golden Venture disaster. The book would be awesome enough if it just told the tale of Sister Ping's rise and fall as the tsarina of human smuggling in New York's Chinatown. But The Snakehead offers a whole lot more—it's chock full of knowledge-expanding goodness, touching on everything from FBI informant policies to the Kenyan restaurant scene. And then there's