The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-Terrorism

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The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-Terrorism

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?Â From a law-enforcement perspective, undercover is the art of skillfully eliciting incriminating statements.Â From a personal and psychological standpoint, itâ€™s the dark art of gaining trustâ€”then manipulating that trust. In the simplest terms, itâ€™s playing a chess game with the bad guy, getting him to make the moves you want him to makeâ€”but without him knowing youâ€™re doing so.Â

Edward Follis mastered the chess gameâ€”The Dark Artâ€”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 butâ€”in some casesâ€”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 agencyâ€™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 ofÂ Miami Vice.Â 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 worldâ€™s most ruthless drug lords and terrorist networks, Follisâ€™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 insiderâ€™s account of the confluence between narco-trafficking and terrorist organizations,Â The Dark ArtÂ is a page-turning memoir that will electrify you from page one.
Country USA
Manufacturer Avery
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations, colour illu
ReleaseDate 2014-10-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781592408931

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Avery
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations, colour illu
ReleaseDate	2014-10-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781592408931

The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-Terrorism

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