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Title: Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius
and His Empire
Author: Elaine Shannon
Category: Audiobook
Narrated By: Dennis Boutsikaris
Duration: 11:17:25
Type: MP3
Size: 310.3 MB
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With an introduction by four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Mann.
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 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-US 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 drug- 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 and Jeff Bezos rolled into one.
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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