Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
Language: English
Published by Trade Paper Press, 2007
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- Title
- Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
- Author
- Stephen Braun,Farah, Douglas
- Publisher
- Trade Paper Press
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0470048662
- ISBN 13
- 9780470048665
In Merchant of Death, two respected journalists tell the incredible story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought. Bout's vast enterprise of guns, planes, and money has fueled internecine slaughter in Africa and aided both militant Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and the American military in Iraq. While the world celebrated the end of the Cold War, Bout and those like him quietly built up a new, complex, and deadly international war system. The West has done little to dismantle this incredible, transnational empire that has provided essential support to despots, insurgents, and terrorists around the world. This book details how a small circle of U.S. officials and international investigators worked doggedly to shut down Bout's arms pipelines, only to be trumped by Bout's ingenuity and by their own inability and, in some cases, unwillingness to confront the dark side of the new world order. From the moment Bout appeared in the 1990s, the question has been, how will his unparalleled career end? With his arrest, or his retirement to a lavish, guarded estate in some remote African nation? Compelling and timely, Merchant of Death combines spy thrills with crucial insights on the shortcomings of a U.S. foreign policy that fails to confront the lucrative and lethal arms trade that erodes global security.
Douglas Farah (Takoma Park, MD) is the former West African bureau chief of the Washington Post, and the author of Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (0-7679-1562-3). Stephen Braun (Washington, DC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, based in Washington.
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Stephen Braun is a Pulitzer Prizewinning national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
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