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    The Disturbing Global Underworld of Paul LeRoux

    In "Hunting LeRoux," Elaine Shannon reveals a vast, shadowy alternate economy with "bad people doing very bad things....The body count is going to keep rising."
    by Mary Kaye Schilling Mar 15, 2019 6 minutes
    Paul LeRoux under arrest and en route to New York.
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    She could rightly claim to be the Boswell of thugs and drugs. A veteran former correspondent for Newsweek and Time, Elaine Shannon emerged as a leading expert on the evil alliances of drug kingpins and corrupt officials with her tingling, real-life 1988 thriller, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win, which was adapted by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann for his Emmy–winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story and its Emmy–nominated sequel, Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel. 

    Now, Shannon and Mann have teamed up again to bring her latest investigative tour de force, Hunting Leroux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire (William Morrow), to a theater near you. 

    I was in Afghanistan, writing about the world heroin trade and how it finances war and terrorism; the Taliban, as far as I can tell, is 90 percent funded by heroin. One of my contacts told me about this very strange but powerful figure that he had been investigating. I took a quick right turn and found

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