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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherTrine DAY
ISBN-101936296152
ISBN-139781936296156
eBay Product ID (ePID)99557853
Product Key Features
Book TitleHunt for Khun Sa : Drug Lord of the Golden Triangle
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, General, Criminology
Publication Year2011
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Social Science, History
AuthorRon Felber
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-926599
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal363.25977
SynopsisFor two decades, the Burmese warlord Khun Sa controlled nearly 70 percent of the world's heroin supply, yet there has been little written about the legend the U.S. State Department branded the "most evil man in the world"--until now. Through exhaustive investigative journalism, this examination of one of the world's major drug lords from the 1970s to the 1990s goes behind the scenes into the lives of the DEA specialists assigned the seemingly impossible task of capturing or killing him. Known as Group 41, these men would fight for years in order to stop a man who, in fact, had the CIA to thank for his rise to power. Featuring interviews with DEA, CIA, Mafia, and Asian gang members, this meticulously researched and well-documented investigation reaches far beyond the expected and delves into the thrilling and shocking world of the CIA-backed heroin trade.