India, May 2 -- This is the story of three men - Kumar Pandruvada, Virgil Bierschwale and Manu Mitra - whose lives were ravaged by the H-1B visa programme. It is also the story of two nations, of transcontinental human trafficking, corporate and immigration fraud, and wage violations so enormous that their official count over the past two decades reaches at least $121 million. Wild Wild East unveils a scam that affects millions of American and Indian workers. A scam sustained and abetted by thousands of firms, politicians, think tanks and universities. Tanul Thakur, a former H-1B worker, spent eight years unearthing the tale. This expose - spanning Big Tech, outsourcing behemoths, educational consultancies and federal agencies - dismantles long-held myths about elements of the Indian IT boom and American exceptionalism. Shunning simplistic notions and digging deep into the tangles of immigration, this is a book with the heart of a novel....