Lo Hsing Han: Godfather of the Golden Triangle
In the early nineteen seventies, the mountains of Burma's Shan State produce more illicit opium than anywhere else on earth, and the mule trains that carry it south move on a schedule set by one man. Lo Hsing Han, known across the region as the Godfather of Heroin, controls the largest single trafficking network in the Golden Triangle, moving an estimated third of the world's heroin supply through routes he taxes from the poppy field to the Hong Kong buyer. Two governments and a generation of Drug Enforcement Administration officers in Bangkok build a case against him without a bilateral…
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