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by Douglas Farah & Stephen Braun
Former West African Bureau Chief of the Washington Post Douglas Farah and Los Angeles Times National Correspondent Stephen Braun detail how a small circle of U.S. officials and international investigators worked doggedly to shut down Viktor Bout's arms pipelines, only to be trumped by Bout's ingenuity and by their own inability-and, in some cases, unwillingness-to confront the dark side of the new world order.
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Bout Arrested
Photo Credit: AP Photo
After years of eluding authorities, Viktor Bout was arrested in Bangkok on March 6, 2008, targeted by an undercover sting operation by federal narcotics agents. Bout is currently detained in a maximum security jail by Thai authorities and the U.S. is seeking to extradite him for trial in New York.
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Reviews
- Journalists Farah and Braun center their absorbing exposé of this source of global misery on its most successful practitioner, the Russian dealer Viktor Bout... an engrossing, detailed description of this wildly destructive traffic.
Publishers Weekly
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