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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN num: 9780470261965
ISBN number: 047026196X
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: April 14, 2008
Publishing house: Wiley
Sale Popularity Level: 57965
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A Washington Post Best Book Of The Year
'A riveting investigation of the world's most notorious weapons dealer, Viktor Bout, whose post-Cold War arms network has stoked violence worldwide.'
—THE WASHINGTON POST
'A page-turner that digs deep into the amazing, murky story of Viktor Bout. Farah and Braun have exposed the inner workings of one of the world's most secretive businesses—the international arms trade.'
—Peter Bergen, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know
'Braun and Farah have crafted an impressive and damning dossier on this mysterious figure, a raw capitalist at work in an anarchical world.'
—Mark Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah
'Viktor Bout is like Osama bin Laden: a major target of U.S. intelligence officials who time and again gets away. Farah and Braun have skillfully documented how this notorious arms dealer has stoked violence around the world and thwarted international sanctions. . . . A truly impressive piece of investigative reporting.'
—Michael Isikoff, coauthor of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Respected journalists Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun tell the incredible story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought. Bout's vast enterprise of guns, planes, and money has fueled internecine slaughter in Africa and aided both militant Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and the American military in Iraq. Combining spy thrills with crucial insights on the shortcomings of a U.S. foreign policy that fails to confront the lucrative and lethal arms trade that erodes global security, they show how Bout has successfully skirted every endeavor to undo his enterprise and flourishes, while the world's premier intelligence services have largely given up the chase.
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This well-written book was delivered on time and in good condition. My review title is light-hearted, the subject of the book is not. This is an inside look at the rise of Victor Bout, a former Soviet Air Force officer, as the superstar of modern gun running. The details of how he did it, and how the US and other nations and NGOs tracked and treated his organization, are all in the book. This is an eye-opener for the common citizen on one of todays most pressing transnational threats. >Sam
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I picked up this book thinking that I would enjoy it, but was disappointed in less than 20 pages. I pressed on past 100 pages only to find myself going crazy from the disjoined timeline.
Long story short: They think blaming a single man (no matter how vile he is) for the woes of an entire continent is easier than blaming disjointed societies for tribal conflicts that are thousands of years old. The dilution that this one person is somehow changing the world for the worse lends itself to the dilution that a government can control people's blood-letting-hatred for each other. And thinking that all the killing in Africa is going to miraculously stop when Victor Bout is behind bars (now matter how much he deserves it) is insane. I see this book as a chronicle of how pie-in-the-sky liberal ideas are ineffective at solving the world's problems or even putting one man in jail. It gets an extra star for being hilarious albeit for the wrong reasons.
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Interesting book, however very repetitive. Also jumps back and forth along the time line. Book is nothing more then testimonials from people who were employed or had contact with Victor Bout the arms dealer. However his rise to power is truly amazing.
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This is a good read, but it could have been better. It's an interesting and thought provoking subject that is presented a little to matter of factly.
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I thought that I would love this book. As it turns out, I only made it through about 100 pages. The information contained in the book is interesting to say the least, but it seems like it was less about Victor Bout and more about the coutries he was supplying with weapons. Every once in a while Bout's actions would be mentioned, then a long history of the civil war in some African nation would follow. The timeline is also somewhat confusing. On one page its 1993 then 3 pages later, its back in 1985. Then the subsequent chapter its 2001, then to 1998.
I didnt hate the book, I just found it difficult to read. I think a more linear timeline, and less info about war torn nations would have made for a better book. Just my opinion tho.
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