In Claire Sterling's Thieves' World, new light is shed on the current status of organized crime in the world today. The days of crime families battling it out in the streets is a thing of the past. The fall of communism in Soviet Russia and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in Germany opened the doors to a land of endless wealth and opportunity that all the major crime syndicates have taken advantage of. …
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…business, this is exactly the way in which they have to be dealt with. One of the biggest problems deals with that of personally privacy. With the rapid pace at which technology is moving, it is becoming increasingly easier to gather information of some type on everyone. It is paramount, suggests the author, that governments provide the means necessary for obtaining this information, especially to those agencies that are charged with fighting organized crime today.