A former DEA chief and an award-winning crime journalist deliver a powerful, revealing, no-holds-barred look at the drug war, from the streets to the bureaucratic offices. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Justice allows working agents to be quoted by name and details of actual crimes and drug busts to be revealed. 16-page insert.
The centerpiece of the book is the murder of a DEA agent by a minor Mafia hoodlum, who the mob kills for generating so much attention on them. The book is well-written and demonstrates that traditional organized crime remains enmeshed in narcotics trafficking despite the glamorized rumors to the contrary.