SMUGGLERS OF TODAY By W. J. Makin
This is the golden age of smuggling because it is the age of trade barriers, of jealously guarded frontiers, of pro- hibitions. The author of Smugglers of Today (Jenkins, I2S. 6d) has travelled the world in his search for the inside story of how these barriers are passed. He has investigated both sides of the business : the smuggler's and that of the customs officer or pOlice, and deals with all the main branches except white-slaving—which he found too un- pleasant and involved a subject for a book of this kind. Nothing is too big or too small for Mr. Makin's attention. He seems to have met all types of smugglers, from the directors of world- wide dope-smuggling organisations to stowaways. Diamonds, arms, spirits, dope and human beings are the most profitable goods, and Mr. Makin reveals the amazing extent of the traffic in them, and the endless ingenuity of those who engage in it. Fortunes arc being made, for instance, by the Levan- tine and Arab agencies which assist immigrants without permits to enter Palestine. Mr. Makin has done a wry thorough job, and his book is out- standing amongst popular crime-bocks.
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