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Shannon, Elaine.
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Le Roux, Paul Calder.
United States. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Criminals -- Biography.
Crime -- Technological innovations.
Organized crime -- Technological innovations.
Criminal investigation.
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Shannon, Elaine.
Le Roux, Paul Calder.
United States. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Criminals -- Biography.
Crime -- Technological innovations.
Organized crime -- Technological innovations.
Criminal investigation.
MARC Display
Hunting
LeRoux
: the
inside
story
of the
DEA
takedown
of a
criminal
genius
and his
empire
/ Elaine Shannon.
by
Shannon, Elaine.
Michael Mann Books, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
Call #:
364.1092 S528h
Subjects
Le Roux, Paul Calder.
United States. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Criminals -- Biography.
Crime -- Technological innovations.
Organized crime -- Technological innovations.
Criminal
investigation.
ISBN:
9780062859136 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Inside
story
of the
DEA
takedown
of a
criminal
genius
and his
empire
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 354 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-342) and index.
Summary:
"The
story
of Paul
LeRoux
, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive
inside
story
of how the DEA’s elite, secretive 960 Group brought him down. Paul
LeRoux
was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. After a first career as a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, he plunged hellbent into the dark side, using his extraordinary talents to develop a disruptive new business 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 his own pleasure 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, cloud sharing and novel money-laundering techniques. LeRoux’s businesses, cyber-linked by his own dark worldwide web, stretched from Southeast Asia across the Middle East and Africa to Brazil; they generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of arms, drugs, chemicals, bombs, missile technology and murder. He dealt with rogue nations—Iran and North Korea—as well as the Chinese Triads, Somali pirates, Serb mafia, outlaw bikers, militants, corrupt African and Asian officials and coup-plotters. Initially,
LeRoux
appeared as a ghost image on law enforcement and intelligence radar, an inexplicable presence in the middle of a variety of
criminal
endeavors. 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—Escobar and Victor Bout along with the innovative vision of 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 breath-taking 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."--From publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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