La Caza del Genio del Crimen (Hunting Leroux): The Inside Story of the Dea Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire - Paperback

by Elaine Shannon (Author)

La
verdadera historia de cómo la DEA acabó con Paul LeRoux y su misterioso
imperio criminal.

Una
obra maestra de la investigación. Es sin duda la visión más completa que
existe sobre una operación muy compleja y de alto nivel de la DEA. Es una
mirada fascinante sobre un sindicato del crimen organizado internacional y de
su carismático y letal capo que ha usado internet como un arma a la hora de
construir un imperio criminal. Paul Leroux es un asesino a sangre fría y uno
de los criminales más aterradores e intrigantes sobre los que he leído. Una
prueba de las habilidades de Shannon como escritora es que este
libro se lee como un thriller de esos que no puedes soltar. Meticulosamente
documentado y con acceso exclusivo a casi todos los personajes clave de ambos
lados de la ley, este es el traao defi nitivo sore
el ascenso y caída de un ser maligno como Paul Leroux, además de ser una saga
criminal que te deja con la boca abierta. Shannon lleva al lector dentro de
la historia, de manera que parece que estás en el mismo cuarto, en la misma
caza y en medio de la acción de toda la operación de la DEA en la persecución
global del rey del crimen del siglo XXI. Es una sobresaliente trabajo de
investigación por una maestra del periodismo .

Don Winslow, escritor superventas del New York Times,
autor de El cártel, El poder del perro y La frontera

Back Jacket

THE STORY OF PAUL LEROUX, THE TWISTED-GENIUS ENTREPRENEUR AND COLD-BLOODED KILLER WHO BROUGHT REVOLUTIONARY INNOVATION TO TRANSNATIONAL CRIME, AND THE EXCLUSIVE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THE DEA'S ELITE, SECRETIVE 960 GROUP BROUGHT HIM DOWN

With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominee Michael Mann

Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. After a first career as a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, he plunged hell-bent into the dark side, using his extraordinary talents to innovate a revolutionary new model for transnational organized crime. Along the way he created a mercenary force of ex-U.S. and NATO sharpshooters to carry out contract murders for problem solving and profit. The criminal empire he built was Cartel 4.0, utilizing the gig economy and the tools of the digital age: encrypted mobile devices, rapid scalability, cloud sharing, and new money-laundering techniques. LeRoux's businesses, cyberlinked by a dark web of his own invention, stretched from Southeast Asia across the Middle East and Africa to Brazil; they generated hundreds of millions of dollars in the sales of arms, drugs, chemicals, bombs, and missile technology, as well as murder for hire. He dealt with rogue nations--Iran and North Korea--as well as Chinese triads, Somali warlords, Serb mafia, militants, and corrupt African and Asian officials.

Initially, LeRoux appeared as a ghost image on law enforcement and intelligence radar, an inexplicable presence in the middle of a variety of criminal enterprises. He was Netflix to Blockbuster, Spotify to Tower Records. A bold disruptor, his methods brought international crime into the age of innovation, making his operations barely detectable and LeRoux nearly invisible. But he gained the attention of a small band of bold, unorthodox DEA agents, whose brief was tracking down drugs-and-arms-trafficking kingpins who contributed to war and global instability. The 960 Group, an element of the DEA's Special Operations Division, had launched some of the most complex, coordinated, and dangerous operations in the agency's history. They used unorthodox methods and undercover informants to penetrate LeRoux's inner circle and bring him down.

For five years Elaine Shannon immersed herself in LeRoux's shadowy world. She gained exclusive access to the agents and players, including undercover operatives who looked LeRoux in the eye on a daily basis. Shannon takes us on a shocking tour of this dark frontier, going deep into the operations and the mind of a singularly visionary and frightening figure--Pablo Escobar and Viktor Bout and Steve Jobs rolled into one. She puts you in the room with these people and their moment-to-moment encounters, jeopardy, frustration, anger, and small victories, creating a narrative with a breathtaking edge, immediacy, and a stranger-than-fiction reality.

Remarkable, disturbing, and utterly engrossing, Hunting LeRoux introduces a new breed of criminal spawned by the savage, greed-exalting underside of the Age of Innovation--and a new kind of true-crime story. It is a look into the future--a future that is dark.