ALAN A. BLOCK is Professor of Crime, Law and Justice at the Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively on organized crime, and his books include "The Organized Criminal Activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International" (2001), "Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas" (1998), "Space, Time, and Organized Crime" (1994), and "War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Policy" (1992), among others.