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"IN AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE FEDS TOOK DOWN INFAMOUS HEROIN DEALER FRANK LUCAS. BUT THE KINGPIN BEHIND LUCAS\u2019S CRIMINAL REIGN, LEROY \u201CNICKY\u201D BARNES, REMAINED \u201CMR. UNTOUCHABLE.\u201D UNTIL ONE UNDERCOVER AGENT PROVED TOUGH ENOUGH\u2014OR CRAZY ENOUGH\u2014TO INFILTRATE HIS DOMAIN AND NAIL THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG CZAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Growing up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where physical violence was a daily reality at home, at school, and on the streets, Louis Diaz had what it took to survive\u2014and to one day become what he vowed to be: a man of uncompromising principles who is \u201Ccompassionate on the inside, fierce on the outside.\u201D These were the qualities, along with his street fighter\u2019s steely nerves and hair-trigger temper, that drove Diaz from his savage beginnings and early forays in organized crime to become one of the DEA\u2019s bravest undercover agents\u2014the man who was instrumental in tak\u00ADing down some of the nation\u2019s and the world\u2019s most notorious crime rings. In an unforgettable and utterly engaging first-person narrative, Diaz tells his gritty, colorful, painful, and even humorous life story\u2014a story with all the raw emotional power and bare-knuckle action of Wiseguy or Serpico. From his headline-making cases of Nicky Barnes and the Medell\u00EDn cartel . . . to his account of outwitting a key villain linked to the record-breaking heist known as The Great English Train Robbery . . . to his all-out confrontations with murderous gunrunners and drug dealers on the mean streets of New York . . . to leading commando raids on clan-destine cocaine labs inside the Bolivian jungles, Dancing with the Devil is an explosive memoir that stands as a classic of true-crime literature."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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