With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann. The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius business owner and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international criminal offense, and the special inside story of how the DEA’s elite, secretive 960 Group brought him down. Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. After a very first career as a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, he plunged hellbent into the dark side, using his extraordinary talents to establish a disruptive new organization design for global organized crime. Along the method he produced a mercenary force of ex-U.S. and NATO sharpshooters to carry out contract murders for his own enjoyment and revenue. The criminal empire he constructed was Cartel 4.0, using the gig economy and the tools of the Digital Age: encrypted mobile phones, cloud sharing and unique money-laundering techniques. LeRoux’s businesses, cyber-linked by his own dark worldwide web, extended from Southeast Asia across the Middle East and Africa to Brazil; they created hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of arms, drugs, chemicals, bombs, rocket innovation and murder. He handled rogue nations– Iran and North Korea– in addition to the Chinese Triads, Somali pirates, Serb mafia, outlaw cyclists, militants, corrupt African and Asian officials and coup-plotters. At first, LeRoux appeared as a ghost image on police and intelligence radar, a mysterious existence in the middle of a range of criminal endeavors. He was Netflix to Hit, Spotify to Tower Records. A vibrant disruptor, his approaches brought global criminal activity into the age of innovation, making his operations barely detectable and LeRoux nearly unnoticeable. He got the attention of a small band of vibrant, unorthodox DEA agents, whose quick was tracking down drugs-and-arms trafficking kingpins who contributed to war and international instability. The 960 Group, an aspect of the DEA’s Unique Operations Department, had actually released a few of the most intricate, collaborated and unsafe operations in the company’s history. They utilized unconventional approaches and undercover informants to penetrate LeRoux’s inner circle and bring him down. For five years Elaine Shannon immersed herself in LeRoux’s shadowy world. She acquired exclusive access to the representatives and gamers, consisting of undercover operatives who looked LeRoux in the eye every day. Shannon takes us on a shocking tour of this dark frontier, going deep into the operations and the mind of a singularly visionary and frightening figure– Escobar and Victor Bout together with the ingenious vision of Steve Jobs rolled into one. She puts you in the space with these people and their moment-to-moment encounters, jeopardy, aggravation, anger and small success, developing a story with a breath-taking edge, immediacy and a stranger-than-fiction truth. Amazing, troubling, and absolutely gripping, Hunting LeRoux introduces a new breed of criminal spawned by the savage, greed-exalting underside of the Age of Innovation– and a brand-new kind of true criminal offense story. It is a look into the future– a future that is dark.
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