{"product_id":"9781785789731","title":"Narcotopia : In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Outwitted the CIA","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning journalist - and author of Hello, Shadowlands - Patrick Winn reveals the inside story of a forbidden republic - the narco-state of the Wa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe jagged mountains dividing China and Burma belong to the Wa, an indigenous group who have outwitted the CIA to create the world's mightiest narco-state, controlling more territory than Israel and with more troops than Sweden. Are they crime lords? Or visionaries?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWa State has become a real nation with its own highways, anthems, schools and flags. Its leaders promise a utopia, using profits from trafficking heroin and meth to attain what China's other frontier peoples, Tibetans and Uighurs, can only dream of: a state of their own. Patrick Winn (author of Hello, Shadowlands) embarks on a risky journey of discovery, chasing clues about the forbidden republic from Thailand to Burma to the secretive Wa State itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Icon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52930872967477,"sku":"EB_SS0500_J04-06_DUBAI","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9781785789731-1.jpg?v=1789407898","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ar\/products\/9781785789731","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}