With a foreword 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 hellbent
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-U.S. 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 drugs-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 along with the innovative vision of Steve Jobs rolled into
one. She puts you in the room with these people and their
moment-to-moment encounters, jeopardy, frustration, anger and small
victories, creating a narrative with a breath-taking edge,
immediacy and a stranger-than-fiction reality. Remarkable,
disturbing, and utterly engrossing, 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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