Deep Cover

Levine, Michael

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Language: English

Published by A Dell Book Published by Dell Publishing - Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York, 1991

0440208017 / 9780440208013

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Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; "12" Stamped on Lower Edge. EXPLOSIVE NATIONAL BEST SELLER. THE REAL STORY OF WHY WE'RE LOSING THE DRUG WAR TOLD BY A MAN WHOSE LIFE IS DEDICATED TO WINNING IT. Michael Levine, Former DEA group supervisor and international undercover agent. SUB-TITLE: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence, and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War. SYNOPSIS: AMERICA'S WAR ON DRUGS - THE TRAGIC, SHOCKING FIASCO. If there were a textbook on undercover work, Michael Levine would have to have written it. For twenty-five years he was an insider in the DEA - their top undercover cop. A man with a proven record of arrests - personally accounting for more than 3,000 criminals serving 15,000 years in jail. A man who now calls America's war on drugs "the biggest, costliest, most dangerous failure of American policy since Vietnam." IN THIS BOOK, HE PROVES IT. He takes us with him on one of the most dramatic, ambitious cases ever mounted - an operation in which the drug kingpins of three countries were caught red-handed . . . and tells us why they were never brought to justice. The result is the explosive expose of why we're losing the war on drugs - told in the words of an American who has devoted his life to winning it. AS SEEN ON Good Morning America, Donahue, Inside Edition, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. - and - WHO IS THE REAL ENEMY IN AMERICA'S "WAR ON DRUGS"? Michael Levine shows how: a petty drug dealer made over $300,000 as a paid informant for the U.S. Government; one U.S. agency sabotaged the efforts of another in order to "get credit" for results . . .; the DEA routinely puts agents in perilous situations designed to undermine their own efforts . . .; our government continues to spend millions on a failed operation . . .; our government refused to support an operation that could have implicated top South and Central American government officials . . . Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

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Title
Deep Cover
Author
Levine, Michael
Publisher
A Dell Book Published by Dell Publishing - Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York
Publication year
1991
Condition
Good
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0440208017
ISBN 13
9780440208013
Edition
First Thus 1st Printing.
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