" Glenny is an exceptionally capable and thorough investigative journalist. This big book reads like a collection of magazine articles. Despite the clever title, which hypes the book wonderfully, there is no over-arching (pun not intended, but hey) criminal organization dominating the world's grayish-black markets. As the author explains in a thoughtful Epilogue, today's global situation fosters an organic, bottom-up growth of organized crime, caused by the dual factors of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the concurrent deregulation of Western financial markets. "
— Gerald, 2/12/2014