Snakehead (gang) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the Lincoln Rhyme novel, The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver, the villain is a shadowy snakehead, nicknamed "the Ghost," who is intent on killing a family of Chinese immigrants who are the only witnesses alive who can identify him to the authorities.
• The Alex Rider novel Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz features snakeheads as the villains.
• In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, one of the operations puts the player on a ship carrying illegal Vietnamese immigrants. The gangster running the operation is referred to as "the Snakehead."
• In the "Laughing Magician" story arc of the comic book Hellblazer, John Constantine enlists the aid of a snakehead gang boss.
• The 1980 Shaw Brothers production Lost Souls directed by Mou Tun Fei concerns the exploitation of illegal immigrants and features a gang of nasty snakeheads as the villains.
• The Oregon Files novel Dark Watch by Clive Cussler features snakeheads as minor villains.
• The Fringe episode "Snakehead" features a gang that smuggles immune-boosting parasites by feeding them to the Chinese immigrants that they are transporting.
• In an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit called "Debt", the detectives fight against a snakehead gang.
• The TV series Hawaii Five-0 (2010) featured a snakehead in the pilot episode who is sentenced to life imprisonment - later to be revealed as a subordinate of the archvillain Wo Fat.
• The zombie fiction novel World War Z, by Max Brooks features a Snakehead gang member as a character, revealing how they helped transport infected refugees outside of mainland China to the West and Central Asia.
• The ex-leader of snakehead was major yu
• The movie Premium Rush refers to the Snakehead gang as the recipient of the envelope that is being delivered.