Chasing Shadows - A true story of the Mafia, Drugs and Terrorism

Informationen zum Autor Miles Johnson is an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Financial Times who specialises in covering organised crime and financial corruption across the world. In over a decade at the FT, he has held senior roles in London, and worked as a correspondent in New York, Madrid and Rome. In 2021 he was nominated for British Foreign Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards for his work covering the Italian Mafia. Klappentext "As breathless and on-the-edge suspenseful as the finest thriller fiction" Lee Child "Read this powerful book right now" Roberto Saviano Mafia capo Salvatore Pititto is in trouble. His wife is angry. His mistress is angry. And he is sweating in Calabria on the biggest cocaine deal of his career. Meanwhile in the US, veteran DEA agent Jack Kelly is on the trail of the dirty money funding dangerously powerful figures. One of them, Mustafa Badreddine, is a shadowy master bomb maker dispatched to Syria's civil war for his final mission. Each man has devoted his whole life to an institution that will eventually turn on him. Based on hundreds of interviews and wiretap evidence from five different countries, Chasing Shadows is a compulsive true-crime thriller that draws us into a secret world of greed, ambition and betrayal - exposing the dark side of globalisation. "This is an extraordinary story" Fergal Keane "Reads like a first-rate thriller" Spectator "Compelling, visceral and highly readable" Oliver Bullough "As gripping and suspenseful as any novel you'll read this year" Harlan Coben Vorwort McMafia meets Narcos in a searing true crime tale of the dark side of globalisation set in the US, Italy, Colombia and the Middle East. Zusammenfassung McMafia meets Narcos in a searing true crime tale of the dark side of globalisation set in the US, Italy, Colombia and the Middle East.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Miles Johnson, MILES JOHNSON
• Edition: Little Brown
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9780349128672
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12867-2
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Thème: Dilly's Story
• Catégories: Littérature > Suspense > Policiers, espionnage; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire culturelle; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, TRUE CRIME / General, True Crime / Espionage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Reportage & collected journalism, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Corruption in politics, government and society