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Simon & Schuster
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
288 pages
ISBN: 1451667590
EAN: 9781451667592
Kindle: B00LD1S3HW
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from
Florida became big-time weapons traders—and how the US
government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach—one a
ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseur—won a $300
million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition
to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of
fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli
and David Packouz—the dudes—bought cheap Communist-style
surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The pair then
secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese
ammunition and shipped it to Kabul—until they were caught by
Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the
front page of The New York Times. That’s the “official” story. The truth is far more
explosive. For the first time, journalist Guy Lawson tells
the thrilling true tale. It’s a trip that goes from a dive
apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the
corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq
and Afghanistan. Lawson’s account includes a shady Swiss
gunrunner, Russian arms dealers, corrupt Albanian gangsters,
and a Pentagon investigation that impeded America’s war
efforts in Afghanistan. Lawson exposes the mysterious and
murky world of global arms dealing, showing how the American
military came to use private contractors like Diveroli and
Packouz as middlemen to secure weapons from illegal arms
dealers—the same men who sell guns to dictators, warlords,
and drug traffickers. This is a story you were never meant to read.
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