In everyday life, the word "illicit" sends little thrills up the spine. The illicit cookies filched behind Mom's back, the illicit cigarettes defiantly smoked behind the high school gym, the illicit love affair conducted right under the boss's nose - these are some of life's sweetest memories.

But in the global marketplace the word summons up sins of a different order entirely: Drugs, weapons, even human beings move across international borders every day, defying authority and destroying lives. Globalization has spurred the explosive growth of markets everywhere, and the black market is no exception. That hidden monster is the subject of "Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy" (Doubleday, 352 pages, $26), a new book by Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

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