DANCING WITH THE DEVILDANCING WITH THE DEVIL
Confessions of An Undercover Agent
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Book, 2011
Current format, Book, 2011, , All copies in use.Book, 2011
Current format, Book, 2011, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsDescribes Diaz's daring undercover effort to stop New York City kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, describing his infiltration of the dangerous drug operation and sharing details from other front-page cases.
IN AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE FEDS TOOK DOWN INFAMOUS HEROIN DEALER FRANK LUCAS. BUT THE KINGPIN BEHIND LUCAS&;S CRIMINAL REIGN, LEROY &;NICKY&; BARNES, REMAINED &;MR. UNTOUCHABLE.&; UNTIL ONE UNDERCOVER AGENT PROVED TOUGH ENOUGH&;OR CRAZY ENOUGH&;TO INFILTRATE HIS DOMAIN AND NAIL THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG CZAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Growing up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where physical violence was a daily reality at home, at school, and on the streets, Louis Diaz had what it took to survive&;and to one day become what he vowed to be: a man of uncompromising principles who is &;compassionate on the inside, fierce on the outside.&; These were the qualities, along with his street fighter&;s steely nerves and hair-trigger temper, that drove Diaz from his savage beginnings and early forays in organized crime to become one of the DEA&;s bravest undercover agents&;the man who was instrumental in tak­ing down some of the nation&;s and the world&;s most notorious crime rings.
In an unforgettable and utterly engaging first-person narrative, Diaz tells his gritty, colorful, painful, and even humorous life story&;a story with all the raw emotional power and bare-knuckle action of Wiseguy or Serpico. From his headline-making cases of Nicky Barnes and the Medellín cartel . . . to his account of outwitting a key villain linked to the record-breaking heist known as The Great English Train Robbery . . . to his all-out confrontations with murderous gunrunners and drug dealers on the mean streets of New York . . . to leading commando raids on clan-destine cocaine labs inside the Bolivian jungles, Dancing with the Devil is an explosive memoir that stands as a classic of true-crime literature.
IN AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE FEDS TOOK DOWN INFAMOUS HEROIN DEALER FRANK LUCAS. BUT THE KINGPIN BEHIND LUCAS&;S CRIMINAL REIGN, LEROY &;NICKY&; BARNES, REMAINED &;MR. UNTOUCHABLE.&; UNTIL ONE UNDERCOVER AGENT PROVED TOUGH ENOUGH&;OR CRAZY ENOUGH&;TO INFILTRATE HIS DOMAIN AND NAIL THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG CZAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Growing up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where physical violence was a daily reality at home, at school, and on the streets, Louis Diaz had what it took to survive&;and to one day become what he vowed to be: a man of uncompromising principles who is &;compassionate on the inside, fierce on the outside.&; These were the qualities, along with his street fighter&;s steely nerves and hair-trigger temper, that drove Diaz from his savage beginnings and early forays in organized crime to become one of the DEA&;s bravest undercover agents&;the man who was instrumental in tak­ing down some of the nation&;s and the world&;s most notorious crime rings.
In an unforgettable and utterly engaging first-person narrative, Diaz tells his gritty, colorful, painful, and even humorous life story&;a story with all the raw emotional power and bare-knuckle action of Wiseguy or Serpico. From his headline-making cases of Nicky Barnes and the Medellín cartel . . . to his account of outwitting a key villain linked to the record-breaking heist known as The Great English Train Robbery . . . to his all-out confrontations with murderous gunrunners and drug dealers on the mean streets of New York . . . to leading commando raids on clan-destine cocaine labs inside the Bolivian jungles, Dancing with the Devil is an explosive memoir that stands as a classic of true-crime literature.
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