Patrick Winn
Patrick Winn is an investigative journalist who covers rebellion and black markets in Southeast Asia. Winn enters the worlds of guerrillas and drug traffickers to mine stories that otherwise go ignored. His work has appeared in many outlets — The New York Times, NPR, the BBC — and he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (also known as the ‘poor man’s Pulitzer’) as well as a National Press Club award. Winn is also a three-time winner of Amnesty International’s Human Rights Press Awards among other prizes. He is currently Southeast Asia correspondent for The World, heard on NPR member stations across the US.
3 Books Written
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
by Patrick Winn
Rating: 4.2 ⭐
Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux— a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics, animals and people —and the staggering human toll that is being steadily ignored by the West.
The untold story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state — and America’s struggle to thwart them. In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs
Dusty Sunset
by Patrick Winn