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Inside The DEA ReviewA fascinating look at DEA operations from 25 year veteran Tom Clifford. The main thrust of the story revolves around "Operation Green Ice," wherein he penetrates various high level crime organisations lured by his front company, TAVA, to launder their money through DEA controlled accounts! It's a good book but the fact is that I became very pedantic soon into this read, scrutinizing every detail instead of just enjoying it.Tom Clifford's technical skills as an author seem somewhat lacking. I've wondered, given the inconsistencies, if this book wasn't re-written or severely edited. For example, the first part of the book is about his early history as a narc and it's told with very little dialogue, as one might expect. Relative to the rest of the book, it seems out of place, almost as if the author is "getting it out of the way". Then slowly the story morphs into a novel with plenty of dialogue and the author becomes near omnipresent. Little nagging details arise. The conversations aren't always easy to follow. Typos and editing errors occur regularly: 'where' shows up as 'were," 'mac' (a type of machine pistol) becomes 'mach', and in one case a sentence interrupts itself half way through and proceeds to repeat itself. Worse, the author mentions that London is 5 hours ahead of the U.S. West Coast. Later, he refers to a Sig Sauer pistol as having a manual safety which is incorrect except in the case of the uncommon P210 model which, given the context, it probably wasn't (some newer models are another matter). And most heinously, in my opinion, he seems to be under the impression that Sig Sauers don't have an internal safety which prevents the firing pin from causing an accidental discharge (i.e. from dropping it). Minor? Maybe. But I wouldn't expect a trained DEA agent to make that mistake. And effortless reading is impossible with sentences as awkward as this gem: "I had to do some quick thinking before the management wrote me out of my own script so I used that my school days 'creative and imaginative' qualities to rectify the situation."
All and all it's not terribly written and the actual events portrayed are interesting enough to coax one away from becoming too hung up on shortcomings. Still, I felt it was written by a person who after writing internal memos and after-action reports for 25 years thought they'd try their hand at a memoir.
Bottom line: recommended for anyone interested in the subject matter.
Inside The DEA OverviewA crime novel of intrigue, deceit and treachery. This true story follows the twenty five year career of a Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent from rookie on the streets of New York City to senior manager of DEA's money laundering undercover operations on three continents. His story parallels his professional life with the growth of cocaine use in the United States and the proliferation of its trade into a multi-billion international industry. Whether it be the Mafia, La Costra Nostra, the Colombian Cartels, Mexican Syndicates or the Russian Mob, Tom Clifford's undercover shell corporations and financial storefront businesses penetrated into the inner financial world of the Drug Kingpins. By establishing undercover store fronts in different cities in the United States, Canada and Europe, the undercover operations were the largest enterprises established by the United States government to counteract the money laundering activities of organized crime. Clifford proves that the globalization of crime is here and the cooperation between different national crime organizations forebodes a dark vision for our social, economic and political systems. The book contains lessons and strategies from the failed War on Drugs that need to be modernized for our present War on Terror.
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