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S'està carregant… Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History (edició 2015)de Guy Lawson (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . I just did not like this book. I don't know if it was the subject matter, the person reading or just not my kind of book. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . Reminds me of, "Breaking Bad", very well done but despicable subject. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . Couldn't make this story up. A stoner dude grew up working a small time gun dealer with his father. He turns twenty and sets out on his own. He recruit his bodies to help win bids on government contracts. He ends up winning a $300 million contract to arm the Afghan National Army during the war on terror. Things go wrong. The dudes are examples of the failures of privatization of the war effort. They end up being a front for more corrupt international arms dealers and get in way over their heads. It's an interest story weld told by Mr. Lawson. The publisher provided me with a copy of the audiobook. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . Infrequently I run into a book that is well written but unlikable. War Dogs is such a book. A non-fiction tale of three pot-heads who become arms dealers during the Iraq and Afghanistan warfare, it's well researched and reasonably gripping. But, unlike The Night Manager there's no good guy here to save the day. Gun runners are war profiteers, peddling shoddy merchandise to help killing machines. In my book they rank right up there with child molesters and rapists as the worst of the worst, and deserve to be treated that way. Moreover, War Dogs shows the corrupt, incompetent actions of the Bush administration in the conduct of the wars, and that's rather stomach-churning in itself. All in all, an uncomfortable audio book for me. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseur--won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz--the dudes--bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The pair then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul--until they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of The New York Times. That's the official story. The truth is far more explosive. For the first time, journalist Guy Lawson tells the thrilling true tale. It's a trip that goes from a dive apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawson's account includes a shady Swiss gunrunner, Russian arms dealers, corrupt Albanian gangsters, and a Pentagon investigation that impeded America's war efforts in Afghanistan. Lawson exposes the mysterious and murky world of global arms dealing, showing how the American military came to use private contractors like Diveroli and Packouz as middlemen to secure weapons from illegal arms dealers--the same men who sell guns to dictators, warlords, and drug traffickers. This is a story you were never meant to read. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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