Deep cover : the inside story of how DEA infighting, incompetence, and subterfuge lost us the biggest battle of the drug war

Deep Cover, a New York Times non-fiction bestseller, is a first-hand account of how the CIA, State and Justice Departments teamed up to destroy a DEA undercover sting operation that threatened to expose US government ties to drug-financed governments in Mexico, Panama and Bolivia. Written by the man 60 Minutes called "America's top undercover cop"Michael Levine In Deep Cover, Michael Levine takes us with him on one of the most far-reaching drug cases ever mountedan operation that could have implicated top government officials of three South American countries in the drug trade, and could have gotten American agents deep inside La Corporation, the powerful, deadly, heretofore untouchable group of Bolivian drug lords who supply the likes of the Medelln cartel. But, according to Levine, the DEA and the customs agency are so mismanaged, disorganized, negligent, and rivalrous that this operation, like most drug war operations, was hopelessly bungledlocked in a bureaucratic political frenzy that left agents' lives dangling, drug lords laughing, and the Washington "suits" fighting for air time and promotions. This is the explosive, real story of why we're losing the drug wartold in the words of a true American hero whose life is dedicated to winning it.