Knockoff: the Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods

This is a paperbound reprint of a 2005 book.The World Customs Organization estimates that trade in fakes is worth seven per cent of the world's trade. Based on travel to a number of countries, including America, China, France, and Russia, and interviews with victims, investigators, and the people who sell counterfeits, Phillips' study explores a growing trend "that costs thousands of jobs, kills and maims thousands of people a year, breeds corruption and bribery, has become the cash cow that funds serious crime and violence, and one day might even kill you." The author is a freelance journalist who has written for The Wall Street Journal Europe, The International Herald Tribune, and major British newspapers about business, the internet and technology, and regularly appears on BBC TV. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)