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Chargement... The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism (édition 2014)par Edward Follis
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "The Dark Art", by Edward Follis, covers the author's extensive career as an undercover agent and manager in our drug enforcement agency. The book is interesting in describing what an agent's work might be like, and what dangers he (or she) may face on the job. The disturbing thing about the book is realizing that as one street seller or even a drug kingpin is arrested, there's someone right behind them ready to take over that role. We've been fighting the battle against drugs for years and years, and while individuals are apprehended, it's difficult to say that true progress can be demonstrated. The books focus was on the author's undercover life in the fights against drugs, but I would have liked to learn even more about alternate approaches to the drug war as being taken by other Countries. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A highly decorated veteran DEA agent recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism What exactly is undercover? From a law-enforcement perspective, undercover is the art of skillfully eliciting incriminating statements. From a personal and psychological standpoint, it's the dark art of gaining trust--then manipulating that trust. In the simplest terms, it's playing a chess game with the bad guy, getting him to make the moves you want him to make--but without him knowing you're doing so. Edward Follis mastered the chess game--The Dark Art--over the course of his distinguished twenty-seven years with the Drug Enforcement Administration, where he bought eightballs of coke in a red Corvette, negotiated multimillion-dollar deals onboard private King Airs, and developed covert relationships with men who were not only international drug-traffickers but--in some cases--operatives for Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Shan United Army, or the Mexican federation of cartels. Follis was, in fact, one of the driving forces behind the agency's radical shift from a limited local focus to a global arena. In the early nineties, the DEA was primarily known for doing street-level busts evocative of Miami Vice. Today, it uses high-resolution-optics surveillance and classified cutting-edge technology to put the worst narco-terror kingpins on the business end of "stealth justice" delivered via Predator drone pilots. Spanning five continents and filled with harrowing stories about the world's most ruthless drug lords and terrorist networks, Follis's memoir reads like a thriller. Yet every word is true, and every story is documented. Follis earned a Medal of Valor for his work, and coauthor Douglas Century is a pro at shaping and telling just this kind of story. The first and only insider's account of the confluence between narco-trafficking and terrorist organizations, The Dark Art is a page-turning memoir that will electrify you from page one" -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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