McMafia

Well, I've finished it - and I really do recommend it. Essentially, as he trogs around the world - and I mean all around the world - Glenny concludes that organised crime thrives on the way that globalisation has been managed, or rather, not managed. By opening up and de-regulating the world's financial markets and insisting on the free movement of goods, but not people, organised crime is almost inevitable. It's bred by poverty in search of great riches. And we are all complicit. Every item, more or less, that we buy these days is tainted. A very readable but deeply depressing book.