The Dark Art

my undercover life in global narco-terrorism
Edward Follis, Douglas Century

'I grilled Eddie for days. I wanted to understand what it’s like to get to know someone so well that you’re going to have to betray within months or years. How far do you have to go to fool everyone? Your life is at stake. The government’s at stake. Everything is at stake.'

John Travolta, star of Savages

'All the old salty agents in the office couldn’t help but notice Eddie when he arrived. He had the grit and resolve of a sheepdog, wasn’t afraid of anything and we all wondered if that was going to get him killed someday … The country owes him a great debt of gratitude. This book is a knockout.'

William Queen, author of the New York Times bestselling Under and Alone

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'Ed Follis is the real deal.'

Oliver Stone, Academy Award–winning director, producer and coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Untold History of the United States

A highly decorated veteran 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, it’s the art of skillfully eliciting incriminating statements.

Edward Follis mastered this dark art over the course of his distinguished 27 years with the US’s Drug Enforcement Administration, where he bought bags of coke in a red Corvette, negotiated multi-million-dollar deals on board private jets, and developed covert relationships with men who were not only international drug-traffickers, but — in some cases — operatives for Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and the Mexican federation of cartels.

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. The first and only insider’s account of the confluence between narco-trafficking and terrorist organisations, The Dark Art is an electrifying page-turner.

John Travolta, star of Savages

William Queen, author of the New York Times bestselling Under and Alone

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Format:Paperback

Size: 198mm × 129mm

Extent:272pp

ISBN (13):9781922247698

RRP:£9.99

Pub date:1 Jan 2015

Rights Held: UK & Commonwealth

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Edward Follis

Since retiring from the DEA, Edward Follis spends much of the year traveling worldwide, offering his consulting expertise in the fields of global security, tactical intelligence, and risk-assessment. He has been designated by the US District Courts as a certified expert in the subjects of narco-terrorism, international drug trafficking, and global terrorist networks.

Douglas Century

Douglas Century, a contributing editor at Tablet magazine, writes regularly for leading national publications. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including Under and Alone, which has sold over 250,000 copies in the US.