Gangster Planet, which is thoroughly researched and documented, yet written in a style that entertains while it informs. Much of the book provides historical analysis about how- as technology is constantly changing-crime not only persists unabated, but criminals upgrade their modernized techniques of doing business as well.

It also shows how criminals involved in drug trafficking work hand-in-hand with more "professional" white-collar criminals who assist in laundering the proceeds of crime through public corporations throughout the world.

An alternative subtitle could have been "The Transition of Organized Crime into Transnational Organized Crime".