Paper Fan : the hunt for triad gangster Steven Wong / Terry Gould.

Paper Fan : the hunt for triad gangster Steven Wong / Terry Gould.

By
Gould, Terry, 1949-

Publication Date
2004

Publication Information
Toronto : Random House Canada,

Physical Description
500 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Triads (Gangs) -- Canada.
 
Triads (Gangs)
 
Gangsters -- Canada -- Biography.
 
Gangsters -- Biography.

Summary
Steven Wong is the “paper fan,” a thirty-nine-year-old Hong Kong-born mobster. Raised in New York’s Chinatown, he matured into crime in Vancouver, where he founded and headed the murderous Gum Wah Gang in the late 1980s and early ’90s. In 1992, Wong “died” in a traffic accident in a remote area of the Philippines before he could be sent to jail for heroin trafficking, conveniently just after he’d taken out a million-dollar life insurance policy. His urn may still be interred in a Vancouver cemetery, but today, Interpol has a “Red Alert” arrest warrant out for Wong, and his updated file reads like a Hollywood action film -- a post-mortem panorama of organized criminal adventure that circles the Pacific Rim, from Macau to Japan, from Cambodia to the Philippines.

Language
English

ISBN
9780679310648


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