{"product_id":"9780698162129","title":"The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA highly decorated veteran DEA agent recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat exactly\u003ci\u003e is\u003c\/i\u003e undercover?  From a law-enforcement perspective, undercover is the art of skillfully eliciting incriminating statements.  From a personal and psychological standpoint, it’s the dark art of gaining trust—then manipulating that trust. In the simplest terms, it’s playing a chess game with the bad guy, getting him to make the moves you want him to make—but without him knowing you’re doing so. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Follis mastered the chess game—\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Art\u003c\/i\u003e—over the course of his distinguished twenty-seven years with the Drug Enforcement Administration, where he bought eightballs of coke in a red Corvette, negotiated multimillion-dollar deals onboard private King Airs, and developed covert relationships with men who were not only international drug-traffickers but—in some cases—operatives for Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Shan United Army, or the Mexican federation of cartels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollis was, in fact, one of the driving forces behind the agency’s radical shift from a limited local focus to a global arena. In the early nineties, the DEA was primarily known for doing street-level busts evocative of Miami Vice. Today, it uses high-resolution-optics surveillance and classified cutting-edge technology to put the worst narco-terror kingpins on the business end of \"stealth justice\" delivered via Predator drone pilots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning five continents and filled with harrowing stories about the world’s most ruthless drug lords and terrorist networks, Follis’s memoir reads like a thriller. Yet every word is true, and every story is documented. Follis earned a Medal of Valor for his work, and coauthor Douglas Century is a pro at shaping and telling just this kind of story. The first and only insider’s account of the confluence between narco-trafficking and terrorist organizations, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turning memoir that will electrify you from page one.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117332873456,"sku":"9780698162129","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780698162129_p0.jpg?v=1763619926","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780698162129","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}