By Phillip Church, PhD '70 (economics)

Most likely, you would not be happy to learn that some of your retirement account investments are commingled with overseas money generated from illicit commerce, in particular Asian human trafficking. That’s the discovery of three Americans on vacation in Asia who find themselves caught up in, and forced to thwart, a Hong Kong-based Chinese crime syndicate scheme to take control of Thailand’s economy, all with the tacit enabling of the region’s national governments, global bankers, and foreign investors. From the bucolic setting of a small Thai fishing cooperative to the cutthroat world of financial conglomerates, The Hong Kong Gambit exposes the darker side of globalization that too often benefits the powerful at the expense of the poor.

Fulton Books, 2022