True Crime Asia

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    • An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....

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    • Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld
    • By: Jake Adelstein
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before. Investigative journalist Jake Adelstein presents a sprawling biography of a yakuza, through post-war desperation, to bubble-era optimism, to the present....

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    • The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,985 ratings
    • Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared....

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    • In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
    • By: Patrick Winn
    • Narrated by: Patrick Winn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs....

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    • By: Thomas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions, and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for the same man....

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    • The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
    • By: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945....

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    • The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
    • By: Paul French
    • Narrated by: Paul Chan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Shanghai, 1930s; it was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, and fortunes made - and lost. “Lucky” Jack Riley was the most notorious of those outlaws....

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    • How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
    • By: Paul French
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • As the Japanese are encircling the city, the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking....

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    • The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
    • By: James M. Zimmerman
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for, The Peking Express is the incredible, long-forgotten story of a hostage crisis that shocked China and the West....

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    • 5 Macabre Experiments Conducted on Humans in Asia
    • By: Lillian Lo
    • Narrated by: Aracelis Gotay
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-23
    • Language: English
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    • Some would say, we, the people of now, are living in the future. And as we take the time to look around at the infinite inventions and creative scientific solutions humanity has gifted us with to date, it's easy to understand their sentiment....

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    • The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
    • By: Greg Child
    • Narrated by: Armand Schultz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America's best young rock climbers were sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall...

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    • The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund
    • By: Anita Raghavan
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics, and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn....

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    • An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The Snakehead offers an intimate tour of life on the mean streets of Chinatown, a vivid blueprint of organized crime in an age of globalization and a exploration of how illegal immigration affects us all....

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    • The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
    • By: Scott D. Seligman
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them....

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    • Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
    • By: Patrick Winn
    • Narrated by: Patrick Winn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux....

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    • The History of Asia’s Most Notorious Transnational Criminal Organizations
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A pack of men in sharp, tailored suits and dark sunglasses strut down the street. Their eyes are shielded, but the icy scowl on their faces is a clear sign to stay out of their paths....

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    • 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel
    • By: Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels....

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    • Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
    • By: Jenny Chan
    • Narrated by: Michelle Morgan
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Unit 731 and Unit 100, as well as their subsidiary branches, performed human experimentation on innocents under the leadership of Dr. Shiro....

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    • A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
    • By: Robert Carmichael
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • During the Khmer Rouge's four-year rule of terror, two million people, or one in every four, Cambodians, died. In describing one family's decades-long quest to learn their husband's and father's fate and the war crimes trial of Comrade Duch (pronounced 'Doyk')....

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    • The History and Legacy of China’s Most Famous Organized Crime Syndicates
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From running guns to white-collar crimes in cyberspace and illegal seafood, the Triads, the mafia of China, are potent figures in the world of organized crime. Going by enigmatic names like the 14K Triad and the United Bamboo Gang, these criminal groups are enormous....

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