Fenton Bresler spent over two years and flew many thousands of miles to uncover the facts about the Chinese secret societies known as Triads, who are taking over organized crime in country after country, including the United States. He visited thirteen nations, talked to police chiefs and undercover detectives, went out with an :anti-Triad action squad" in the back streets of Kowloon, and, to top it off, managed to interview three Triad society members themselves in Holland, Hong Kong, and Toronto. The result is a book not only about drugs, violence, corruption, and death, but also of the courage of law enforcement officers throughout the world who risk their lives daily in undercover work.
Fenton Bresler was a barrister, newspaper columnist, television pundit and author of many books, including biographies of the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon and the judge Lord Goddard. Bresler was educated at the local grammar school, the Sorbonne in Paris and King's College, London, before being called to the bar in 1951.