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ARMS AND THE DUDES
By: Guy Lawson
Simon & Schuster
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
288 pages
ISBN: 1451667590
EAN: 9781451667592
Kindle: B00LD1S3HW
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The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons tradersโand how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beachโone a ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseurโwon 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 Packouzโthe dudesโbought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The pair then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabulโuntil they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of The New York Times. Thatโs the โofficialโ story. The truth is far more explosive. For the first time, journalist Guy Lawson tells the thrilling true tale. Itโs 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. Lawsonโs account includes a shady Swiss gunrunner, Russian arms dealers, corrupt Albanian gangsters, and a Pentagon investigation that impeded Americaโs 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 dealersโthe 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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