Elaine Shannon

Elaine Shannon is a best-selling author and veteran journalist specializing in national security, organized crime and terrorism. Hunting LeRoux, her latest book, tells the exclusive story of transnational organized crime's premier innovator, Paul Calder LeRoux, a twisted genius who created the world's biggest Internet pharmacy, with $300 million in sales during its initial years, then diversified into arms, hard drugs, and murder. She uses her unparalleled sources and access to closely held documents to tell the riveting story of a tech titan who broke bad and did high-dollar deals with Iran, North Korea, the Chinese Triads, Somali pirates, Serb mafia, Colombian cartels, Islamist terrorists in the Philippines and mercenaries of many nations, Shannon takes the reader deep inside the 21st Century criminal underground that supports war, terrorism and chaos.