The Albanian Mafia is the new power in international drug trafficking. Over the past decade, organized crime groups from Albania have taken over huge sections of the cocaine trade – particularly trafficking to Europe, which has become the biggest coke market in the world. A lot of myths have sprung up around these Albanian mafia networks – about how they operate and the violence they inflict. We separate truth from fiction – showing how the Albanian crime groups maintain their power, and how they have revolutionized the cocaine trade using innovation, entrepreneurial flair and deadly violence.