Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Mi- 1451667590, hardcover, Guy Lawson
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1451667590
ISBN-13
9781451667592
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201616244
Product Key Features
Book Title
Arms and the Dudes : How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
International Relations / Arms Control, Military / United States, General, United States / 21st Century
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-036526
Dewey Edition
23
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This is one of those books that, God help us, shouldn't be true-but is. US governmental bungling, war in Afghanistan going awry, foreign hustlers making millions out of bilking heroic soldiers, and in the middle of it all are two barely post-teenager dopers fumbling their way into and out of the highest level of the sleazy arms business. Guy Lawson tells the disturbing story brilliantly. You'll cringe, you'll want to look away (a lot), but you won't be able to stop turning the pages., A thrilling account of the stoners' quick ascent into the gunrunning world and their eventual fall from the Defense Department's graces...provides valuable insights into the Pentagon's failures to keep watch over private contractors engaged in arms transfers to Afghanistan and Iraq...[Lawson] uses compelling prose to provide a rare window into the gunrunning and arms-procurement world -- and, even better, a gripping read., This improbable true story tracks three South Florida slackers as they navigate the dangerous world of international arms dealers while ripping off the U.S. Department of Defense for a cool $300 million. It's the perfect beach reading for smart fathers everywhere., This is one of those books that, God help us, shouldn't be true--but is. US governmental bungling, war in Afghanistan going awry, foreign hustlers making millions out of bilking heroic soldiers, and in the middle of it all are two barely post-teenager dopers fumbling their way into and out of the highest level of the sleazy arms business. Guy Lawson tells the disturbing story brilliantly. You'll cringe, you'll want to look away (a lot), but you won't be able to stop turning the pages., The book unfolds like a Hollywood movie project that requires no green light, only casting... The developments are so unbelievable that a writer less skilled than Lawson would have still written a compelling book. Instead, the reporter, whose first version was published in Rolling Stone in 2011, fills in context. Arms and the Dudes is as much about the collapse of American accountability in Iraq during the late '00s as it is about the dudes., Guy Lawson's Arms and the Dudes is a triumph of investigative reporting and storytelling. This book is a mind-blowing account of how two kids turned themselves into some of the world's biggest weapons dealers in the chaotic years of the Iraq war. I couldn't put it down. If it were on the fiction shelf, the rollicking, riveting tale told within these pages would seem wildly implausible. But it's not., It sounds like a comedy flick: Three stoners with few qualifications set out to become big-time international arms dealers. They start bidding on, and landing, Pentagon contracts. They outfox savvy international conglomerates, scoring a $300 million deal to supply mortar rounds, grenades, rockets, and 100 million rounds of AK-47 ammo to the Afghan military. As if that weren't audacious enough, they secretly (illegally) fulfill the order with low-grade, decades- old Chinese ammo--and then things really get crazy. Arms and the Dudes includes mafiosi, hustlers, Kyrgyz secret police, blackmail, transnational grudges, and a shocking indictment of how America became the globe's leading arms dealer. Journalist Guy Lawson's latest may be nonfiction, but it's bloody entertaining., Like the best stories about rogues, con artists and scammers, the magic is in the details. Guy Lawson's, Arms and Dudes, misses nothing. He gets it all., It's like page-turning fiction, but 100-percent true...More than a few Wall Streeters I know have started to read this one., Fun, fast-paced, ironic, the reportage seems solid and the facts straight.... Lawson's book is ridiculously readable, well written, and hard to put down., It sounds like a comedy flick: Three stoners with few qualifications set out to become big-time international arms dealers. They start bidding on, and landing, Pentagon contracts. They outfox savvy international conglomerates, scoring a $300 million deal to supply mortar rounds, grenades, rockets, and 100 million rounds of AK-47 ammo to the Afghan military. As if that weren't audacious enough, they secretly (illegally) fulfill the order with low-grade, decades- old Chinese ammo-and then things really get crazy. Arms and the Dudes includes mafiosi, hustlers, Kyrgyz secret police, blackmail, transnational grudges, and a shocking indictment of how America became the globe's leading arms dealer. Journalist Guy Lawson's latest may be nonfiction, but it's bloody entertaining., A wildly entertaining saga with dual narratives. The first involves blackmail, criminals, hustlers, corrupt government officials, and three kids in way over their heads. The other, and for Lawson more important, side of the story, concerns how the Pentagon came to use private contractors like the dudes as proxies-and eventual fall guys-to secure weapons from gray market arms dealers, the only people who could supply what it needed., A thrilling account of the stoners' quick ascent into the gunrunning world and their eventual fall from the Defense Department's graces...provides valuable insights into the Pentagon's failures to keep watch over private contractors engaged in arms transfers to Afghanistan and Iraq...[Lawson] uses compelling prose to provide a rare window into the gunrunning and arms-procurement world - and, even better, a gripping read., Lawson's eye for detail and research are commendable...details the backroom machinations, corruption, red tape, and intrigue that go along with high-stakes arms deals., Guy Lawson's Arms and the Dudes is a triumph of investigative reporting and storytelling. This book is a mind-blowing account of how two kids turned themselves into some of the world's biggest weapons dealers in a chaotic years of the Iraq war. I couldn't put it down. If it were on the fiction shelf, the rollicking, riveting tale told within these pages would seem wildly implausible. But it's not., Guy Lawson has done a miraculous job…a glorious piece of investigative journalism… No one's clever 'what if,' this is a well-researched expos of government and law gone wild. Intricately detailed and expertly paced, Mr. Lawson's cautionary tale should lead to corrective action. Meanwhile, it is delightfully disturbing reading., Guy Lawson has done a miraculous job...a glorious piece of investigative journalism... No one's clever 'what if,' this is a well-researched exposé of government and law gone wild. Intricately detailed and expertly paced, Mr. Lawson's cautionary tale should lead to corrective action. Meanwhile, it is delightfully disturbing reading., Picture three twenty something dudes with little to no experience and a $300M arms contract with the US government. What could possibly go wrong'... Lawson does a great job weaving the stories together with a broader perspective on the war in Afghanistan and a government rife with incompetency...Verdict: Thrilling., Guy Lawson has done a miraculous job...a glorious piece of investigative journalism... No one's clever 'what if,' this is a well-researched expos of government and law gone wild. Intricately detailed and expertly paced, Mr. Lawson's cautionary tale should lead to corrective action. Meanwhile, it is delightfully disturbing reading.
Dewey Decimal
364.1/336 B
Synopsis
The page-turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz, and Alex Podrizki--the dudes--bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The dudes then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul--until they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of The New York Times . That's the "official" story. The truth is far more explosive. For the first time, journalist Guy Lawson tells the thrilling true tale. It's a trip that goes from a dive apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawson's account includes a shady Swiss gunrunner, Russian arms dealers, corrupt Albanian gangsters, and a Pentagon investigation that impeded America's war efforts in Afghanistan. Lawson exposes the mysterious and murky world of global arms dealing, showing how the American military came to use private contractors like Diveroli, Packouz, and Podrizki as middlemen to secure weapons from illegal arms dealers--the same men who sell guns to dictators, warlords, and drug traffickers. This is a story you were never meant to read.
LC Classification Number
HD9743.U5L39 2015
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