David E. Kaplan covers organized crime and terrorism for U.S. News & World Report. He is coauthor of The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult (1996) and author of Fires of the Dragon: Politics, Murder and the Kuomingtang (1992). Alec Dubro is a freelance journalist and communications consultant for labor and non-profit groups. He is past president of the National Writers Union.
"A superb study of Japan's underworld that is both entertaining and
revealing. The authors miss none of the color and curious detail of
the yakuza style, but at the same time go far beyond surface
observations."
"Blend the Mafia with the Masons. Let them simmer a while, then
fold in the Ku Klux Klan and you'll have the yakuza....Important
and timely...Yakuza will serve for years as the source document on
Japanese organized crime."
"State-of-the-art investigative reporting...must reading for those
who consider themselves already highly conversant with yakuza
activities...disturbing."
"The book is laden with fascinating information, some of it
heretofore unavailable in English."
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