About the book: 1980 / The story of international journalist Andrei Levin tells about the fight of the Singapore police against one of the largest secret societies in Southeast Asia - the Triads. The author, who has worked for a long time in the countries of Southeast Asia, analyzes the origins and causes of organized crime of secret societies in this region, called the Chinese mafia there and engaged in robbery, drug trafficking, currency, gold, and “human goods.” The book reveals the impotence of the official authorities and the police in front of the gangster world, behind which there are large monopolies and Beijing, which is intensively using secret societies for its great-power chauvinistic purposes.