Paper Fan: The Hunt For Triad Gangster Steven Wong
by Terry GOULD /
2004 / English / EPUB
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Triad official Steven Wong is the “paper fan,” a
thirty-nine-year-old Hong Kong-born mobster. Raised in New York’s
Chinatown, he matured into crime in Vancouver, where he founded
and headed the murderous Gum Wah Gang in the late 1980s and early
‘90s. In 1992, Wong “died” in a traffic accident in a remote area
of the Philippines before he could be sent to jail for heroin
trafficking, just after he’d taken out a million-dollar life
insurance policy. His urn may be interred in a Vancouver
cemetery; but today, Interpol has a “Red Alert” arrest warrant
out for Wong. His updated file reads like a Hollywood action
film—an organized criminal adventure that circles the Pacific
Rim, from Macau to Japan, from Cambodia to the Philippines. For
eleven years, award-winning writer Terry Gould tracked Wong
through the organized crime circles of six countries, where
politicians, police, businessmen and criminals run in one big
pack, sometimes nipping each other’s heels, licking each other’s
faces, and inviting one another home for all-night mah-jongg
parties. Four times, Gould has traced Wong and pinned him down,
but the law has let him slip away. Paper Fan includes telling
photographs in this unforgettable hunt for one man.
Triad official Steven Wong is the “paper fan,” a
thirty-nine-year-old Hong Kong-born mobster. Raised in New York’s
Chinatown, he matured into crime in Vancouver, where he founded
and headed the murderous Gum Wah Gang in the late 1980s and early
‘90s. In 1992, Wong “died” in a traffic accident in a remote area
of the Philippines before he could be sent to jail for heroin
trafficking, just after he’d taken out a million-dollar life
insurance policy. His urn may be interred in a Vancouver
cemetery; but today, Interpol has a “Red Alert” arrest warrant
out for Wong. His updated file reads like a Hollywood action
film—an organized criminal adventure that circles the Pacific
Rim, from Macau to Japan, from Cambodia to the Philippines. For
eleven years, award-winning writer Terry Gould tracked Wong
through the organized crime circles of six countries, where
politicians, police, businessmen and criminals run in one big
pack, sometimes nipping each other’s heels, licking each other’s
faces, and inviting one another home for all-night mah-jongg
parties. Four times, Gould has traced Wong and pinned him down,
but the law has let him slip away. Paper Fan includes telling
photographs in this unforgettable hunt for one man.