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Game of Shadows meets Among the Thugs in this revelatory true-to-life crime thriller and expose involving greed, corruption, an Asian crime syndicate, and the fixing of international soccer matches at the highest levels of the game, including the UEFA Champions League and the World Cup.In February 2013, the director of Europol, the European Unions law enforcement agency, made the shocking announcement that 700 international soccer matches had been fixed since 2008, including World Cup qualifying and exhibition matches, with a Chinese criminal syndicate pulling the strings. For the first time, investigative journalist Brett Forrest takes us inside the underworld of one of organized crimes most profitable businessesa 1 trillion annual international betting market, of which soccer comprises 70 percent.
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Brett Forrest (www.brettforrest.com) is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine and has written for Vanity Fair, National Geographic, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. He has lived in Russia, Ukraine, and Brazil.
