Publisher's Synopsis
Based on the author's three-year-long investigation, this account exposes the story of lifelong CIA agent Barry Seal, the most successful drug smuggler in American history, who died in a hail of bullets with George Bush's private phone number in his wallet. Revealing Seal's active role in many of the nation's most notorious scandalsincluding the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, and the Iran-Contra Affairand featuring primary documents previously unseen by the public, this unique history explores the Faustian bargains made by the U.S. government and the secret pasts of some of today's politicians.
