The dark art : my undercover life in global narco-terrorism / Edward Follis and Douglas Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Follis, Edward, author.

Century, Douglas, author.

Contributor:

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Follis, Edward.

Drug enforcement agents--United States--Biography.

Drug enforcement agents.

Drug traffic--Investigation--United States.

Drug traffic.

Drug traffic--Investigation.

United States.

Drug traffic--United States--Prevention.

United States. Drug Enforcement Administration--History.

United States. Drug Enforcement Administration.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Gotham Books, [2014]

Summary:

"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

Follis, a veteran DEA agent, recounts his undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism In the early nineties, the DEA was primarily known for doing street-level busts. 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. An insider's account of the confluence between narco-trafficking and terrorist organizations that will electrify you from page one.

Contents:

Kidnapped in Kabul

Group Four

My favorite Phoenician

Enter the Cobra

This side of paradise

The golden triangle

The Lord of the Skies

The great game

Shiraz

The passion

The last call

Epilogue.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

1592408931

OCLC:

889886571

Publisher Number:

99963791007