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Lawson, Guy.
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Diveroli, Efraim.
Packouz, David.
Illegal arms transfers -- United States.
Arms transfers -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
United States -- Military relations.
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Lawson, Guy.
Diveroli, Efraim.
Packouz, David.
Illegal arms transfers -- United States.
Arms transfers -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
United States -- Military relations.
MARC Display
Arms
and the
dudes
:
how
three
stoners
from
Miami
Beach
became
the
most
unlikely
gunrunners
in
history
/ Guy Lawson.
by
Lawson, Guy.
Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Call #:
364.1336 L425a
Subjects
Diveroli, Efraim.
Packouz, David.
Illegal
arms
transfers -- United States.
Arms
transfers -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
United States -- Military relations.
ISBN:
9781451667592 (hc.)
1451667590 (hc.)
9781451667608 (pbk.)
1451667604 (pbk.)
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description:
xvii, 263 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Summary:
"The account of
how
two kids from Florida who
became
big-time weapons traders--and
how
the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young
stoners
from
Miami
Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseur--won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality
arms
, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz--the dudes--bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan
gunrunners
. The pair then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul--until they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of The New York Times. That's the official story. The truth is far more explosive. For the first time, journalist Guy Lawson tells the true tale. It's a trip that goes from a dive apartment in
Miami
Beach
to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawson's account includes a shady Swiss gunrunner, Russian
arms
dealers, corrupt Albanian gangsters, and a Pentagon investigation that impeded America's war efforts in Afghanistan. Lawson exposes the mysterious and murky world of global
arms
dealing, showing
how
the American military came to use private contractors like Diveroli and Packouz as middlemen to secure weapons from illegal
arms
dealers--the same men who sell guns to dictators, warlords, and drug traffickers."--From publisher.
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