This investigation examines how
behind-the-scenes collaboration between governments, intelligence services and
drug traffickers has lined the pockets of big business and Western banks.
Beginning with a last-minute request from ex-governor Jesse Ventura, the
narrative winds between the author's own story of covering "deep
politics" and the facts he has uncovered. The ongoing campaign against
Victor Bout, the "Merchant of Death," is revealed as
"move/countermove" in a game of geopolitics, set against the
background of a crumbling Soviet Union, a nascent Russia, bizarre
assassinations, wars and smuggling.
