They believe LeRoux is the “new now” as well as the near future. This new world’s innovator and its architect is Paul Calder LeRoux.Įarly on, the 960 Group came to the realization that LeRoux was the Elon Musk, the Jeff Bezos of transnational organized crime. They corrupt struggling small countries into failed nation-states to provide transport hubs and service regional con icts. He - and those who have followed - traffic in advanced weapons systems, tonnages of drugs, and exotic fissile materials, and engage in money laundering. His criminal enterprises - linked by a dark web of his own invention - were like a cutting-edge Silicon Valley start-up, using the gig economy, pivoting quickly off failed ideas, capable of rapid scalability, and climbing a hockey-stick curve of success. He deconstructed that model and created something completely different. Infrastructure and personnel hierarchies made them vulnerable, visible, and out-o-fdate to LeRoux. They still had “farm-to-the-arm,” vertically integrated business models often locking them to physical locales. LeRoux deconstructed the conventional ways even sophisticated drug cartels or arms merchants operated. He created a revolution in how transnational organized crime organized itself. LeRoux is a cybertech genius turned crime lord - committing coldblooded murders along the way. The revelation at the center of this true-crime saga is Paul Calder Le Roux and the transformation he innovated. Across continents and time zones, in dark motel rooms and in dangerous countries, we are with law enforcement’s most major league big-game hunters. It’s as if we’re captive in a series called Lifestyles of the Rich and Malevolent.Įqually, the manuscript parachutes us into the lives of Tom Cindric and Eric Stouch, the two agents in the DEA’s secretive 960 Group, who initiated and are the protagonists driving the mainstream investigation into LeRoux. The atmosphere of danger and continual scrutiny is tangible. Reading Shannon’s partial manuscript almost two years ago, I felt I had never been taken inside an organized criminal empire within day-to-day proximity of its lethal and brilliant entrepreneur with such specificity. Shannon has the magical ability to write from inside the flow of actual events, making them come alive. It, simply, is better than most crime stories people can make up. Its authenticity is based on her knowledge of federal and transnational law enforcement, criminal enterprises, and the trust of her sources, who are exclusive to her. Fiction would be hard pressed to match the tension and color and the new dimensions of criminality revealed here. The moment-to-moment, heartbeat-to-heartbeat suspense of the take-downs pervades many sections of Shannon’s book. Elaine Shannon’s Hunting LeRoux delivers us into close proximity to dangerous people in the most ungoverned places on the planet.
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