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Informationen zum Autor Miles Johnson Klappentext Chasing Shadows is a compulsive true-crime thriller following the stories of three very different men: Jack Kelly is a veteran US DEA agent tracking the dirty money of dangerously powerful figures. Salvatore Pititto is a Mafia capo in Italy working on the biggest cocaine deal of his career. Mustafa Badreddine is a master bomb-maker dispatched to Syria to carry out his final deadly mission. All three are players in an interlinked drama of drug trafficking, money laundering and international terrorism. And each man has devoted his whole life to an institution - the DEA, the Mafia and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah - that will eventually turn on them. Based on hundreds of interviews and wiretap evidence from five different countries, Chasing Shadows draws us into a secret world of greed, ambition and betrayal. Taking the reader deep into a dangerous and unknown world, it exposes the dark side of globalisation. 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 'Compelling, visceral and highly readable' Oliver Bullough, bestselling author of Moneyland A compulsive true crime thriller about modern-day international drugs trafficking, terrorism and geopolitical intrigue following an investigation driven by one DEA agent, Jack Kelly. Three very different men battle to control their destinies as they hurtle through the hall of mirrors of the global shadow economy. Jack Kelly , a veteran US Drug Enforcement Administration agent, tasked with following a trail of dirty money across continents from a top-secret investigative unit based in Virginia. Salvatore Pititto is an ambitious Mafia capo working on a vast cocaine shipment who becomes unexpectedly pulled into an arms-smuggling conspiracy. Mustafa Badreddine is a ghost-like master terrorist wanted by governments across the world who has been secretly dispatched to Syria for his final mission. Each man, born in radically different circumstances in the 1960s, is in his own way grappling with the powerful and unstoppable forces that shape the world around us; forces which topple governments, send refugees fleeing across borders, and put guns in the hands of mercenaries and militias. Each has devoted his whole life to an institution - the DEA, the Mafia and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah - and each will eventually be destroyed or betrayed by the thing they believe in the most. Set during 2015 and 2016, as the global order began to implode under the pressures of the Syrian civil war and the European refugee crisis, CHASING SHADOWS looks back over the historical conflicts, events and personal histories that have shaped the lives of these three men. It's a book that shows the betrayals, the disillusionment and the violence as Jack Kelly hunts down his targets. ...
