TY - BOOK AU - Savage, Jared, TI - Gangland SN - 9781775541622 U1 - 364.106 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Auckland, New Zealand : PB - HarperCollins Publishers, KW - Organized crime KW - New Zealand KW - Drug traffic KW - Gangs N1 - 1. Breaking bad begins: The birth of 'P' in New Zealand -- 2. Working the wire: The drug catcher who became a police rat -- 3. Granite, skull and rocky: An execution in Tauranga -- 4. Bend it like Beckham: Vengeance in the Northland underworld -- 5. A head hunter in a Ferrari: The ballad of Little Dave -- 6. Tiger testicles, shark fins and P: Inside the Asian drug empire -- 7. Out with the old: The twilight of the Head Hunters -- 8. Comedy at sea: The Australians arrive -- 9. An execution at midnight: The Condor empire ruffles feathers -- 10. Just the facts: Attack of the Killer Beez -- 11. Gone fishing: In the Bay of Plenty of cocaine -- 12. NZ narcos: The cartels arrive in New Zealand N2 - New Zealand is now one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the world. Organised crime is about making money. It's a business. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and now the most dangerous drug lords in the world - the Mexican cartels. In Gangland, award-winning investigative reporter Jared Savage shines a light into New Zealand's rising underworld of organised crime and violent gangs. The brutal execution of a husband-and-wife; the undercover cop who infiltrated a casino VIP lounge; the midnight fishing trip which led to the country's biggest cocaine bust; the gangster who shot his best friend in a motorcycle shop: these stories go behind the headlines and open the door to an invisible world - a world where millions of dollars are made, life is cheap, and allegiances change like the flick of a switch ER -