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The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire
William Morrow
February 2019
On Sale: February 19, 2019
368 pages
ISBN: 0062930516
EAN: 9780062930514
Kindle: B079WVBLML
Hardcover / e-Book
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True Crime
The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur
and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary
innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside
story of how the DEA’s elite, secretive 960 Group brought
him down. Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South
Africa. After a first career as a pioneering cybersecurity
entrepreneur, he plunged hellbent into the dark side, using
his extraordinary talents to develop a disruptive new
business model for transnational organized crime. Along the
way he created a mercenary force of ex-U.S. and NATO
sharpshooters to carry out contract murders for his own
pleasure and profit. The criminal empire he built was
Cartel 4.0, utilizing the gig economy and the tools of the
Digital Age: encrypted mobile devices, cloud sharing and
novel money-laundering techniques. LeRoux’s businesses,
cyber-linked by his own dark worldwide web, stretched from
Southeast Asia across the Middle East and Africa to Brazil;
they generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of
arms, drugs, chemicals, bombs, missile technology and
murder. He dealt with rogue nations—Iran and North Korea—as
well as the Chinese Triads, Somali pirates, Serb mafia,
outlaw bikers, militants, corrupt African and Asian
officials and coup-plotters. Initially, LeRoux appeared as a ghost image on law
enforcement and intelligence radar, an inexplicable
presence in the middle of a variety of criminal endeavors.
He was Netflix to Blockbuster, Spotify to Tower Records. A
bold disruptor, his methods brought international crime
into the age of innovation, making his operations barely
detectable and LeRoux nearly invisible. But he gained the
attention of a small band of bold, unorthodox DEA agents,
whose brief was tracking down drugs-and-arms trafficking
kingpins who contributed to war and global instability. The
960 Group, an element of the DEA’s Special Operations
Division, had launched some of the most complex,
coordinated and dangerous operations in the agency’s
history. They used unorthodox methods and undercover
informants to penetrate LeRoux’s inner circle and bring him
down. For five years Elaine Shannon immersed herself in LeRoux’s
shadowy world. She gained exclusive access to the agents
and players, including undercover operatives who looked
LeRoux in the eye on a daily basis. Shannon takes us on a
shocking tour of this dark frontier, going deep into the
operations and the mind of a singularly visionary and
frightening figure—Escobar and Victor Bout along with the
innovative vision of Steve Jobs rolled into one. She puts
you in the room with these people and their moment-to-
moment encounters, jeopardy, frustration, anger and small
victories, creating a narrative with a breath-taking edge,
immediacy and a stranger-than-fiction reality. Remarkable, disturbing, and utterly engrossing, Hunting
LeRoux introduces a new breed of criminal spawned by the
savage, greed-exalting underside of the Age of Innovation—
and a new kind of true crime story. It is a look into the
future—a future that is dark.
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