Mattathias Schwartz writes:

Glenny covered the Balkans during the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wrote three ambitious histories of the region. His fourth book, McMafia, examined how the underworld took advantage of globalisation in the 1990s, establishing partnerships and franchises in the manner of their corporate counterparts. In DarkMarket, Glenny traces a virtual landscape that maps onto familiar political geography, explaining, for instance, how the unreliable Soviet computers used in Ukraine and Bulgaria bred some of the world’s most adept technicians.

(LRB 5 July 2012)

Vintage | Paperback 432 pp. |ISBN: 9780099546559