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 -- 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. Edward Follis And Douglas Century. Map On Lining Pages.

Follis, Edward, author; Century, Douglas, author

New York, New York: Gotham Books

Scribe

New York, New York, New York State, 2014

United States, United States of America

Melbourne, 2015

US, 2014

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xiii, 252 pages : 24 cm
"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."--
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
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

Edward Hollis had a Sig Sauer pistol shoved into his ribs while working deep undercover in Burma, purchasing heroin from an army of stone zombie insurgents. He was told he was never going to walk out of the jungle alive. In this and other situations like it, all he could do was have faith. As far back as he could remember, Edward Follis had dreamed of being an undercover agent. Taking a job with the Drug Enforcement Administration saw his dreams come true across three decades and five continents. He would be responsible for infiltrating some of the biggest drugs rings in the world, getting intimately close to some of the worst drug lords, before making the last call - the one that would bring them down. This book tells a transformational story: the account of a federal agent and the sweep of his career, following the changing face of drug enforcement

A decorated veteran DEA agent recounts his life-risking undercover missions while revealing the unsettling links he has discovered between narcotics trafficking and terrorism. 75,000 first printing.

2023-06-28