Necessary to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a flourishing underworld of organised crime across a region in flux? a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics, pets and people ?and the staggering human toll that is being steadily ignored by the West. From Myanmar’s anarchic hillsides towards the swamplands of Vietnam, jihadis are getting pitted against brothel employees, family pet thieves against vigilantes and meth barons against Christian vice squads. Hello, Shadowlands takes a deep plunge into crime rings both large and small. In addition, it examines how China’s rise and America’s drop is creating brand-new opportunities for transnational syndicates to thrive. Focusing on human being tales on both sides of this crime influx, the acclaimed Bangkok-based broadcaster and journalist Patrick Winn intimately profiles the men and women of the spot who are forced to create agonizing choices in the absence of law.

“Reads such as a thriller you can’t put down.” BUZZFEED NEWS