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The strength of the wolf : the secret history of America's war on drugs
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The strength of the wolf : the secret history of America's war on drugs

Author: Douglas Valentine
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 1844675645 9781844675647
OCLC Number: 70765706
Notes: Originally published: 2004.
Description: 554 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Cast of main characters -- Introduction -- 1. The birth of a bureau -- 2. The commissioner and his clique -- 3. Anslinger's angst -- 4. Inside the FBN -- 5. God's work -- 6. Creating a crime -- 7. Continental capers -- 8. The Beirut office -- 9. The secret policeman -- 10. True detectives -- 11. St. Michael's sergeant at arms -- 12. Gangbusters -- 13. Anglophiles and Francophobes -- 14. A shoofly in the ointment -- 15. The magic button -- 16. Making the mafia -- 17. Aggravating Edgar : Bobby Kennedy and the FBN -- 18. The French connection -- 19. Valachi -- 20. The FBN and the assassination of JFK -- 21. No innocents abroad -- 22. The eve of destruction -- 23. The new French connection -- 24. The new barbarians -- 25. The law of the jungle -- 26. Golden Triangle enterprises -- 27. My only friend -- 28. Andy's gang -- Epilogue -- appendix -- [Pages from the FBN International List book] -- Notes -- Index.
Responsibility: Douglas Valentine.

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