Overview
The page-turning story behind the new film starring Jonah Hill, from the director of 'The Hangover' In January 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million US Government contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, they bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammo 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. That's the 'official' story. The truth is far more explosive. Originally published as 'The Arms and the Dudes', this is 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. This is a story you were never meant to read.
Full Product Details
Author: Guy Lawson
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.224kg
ISBN: 9780241975657
ISBN 10: 0241975654
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 August 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
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 -- Nick Pileggi, author of 'Wiseguy' Extraordinary - a hell of a read New York Daily News 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 -- Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City' Like page-turning fiction, but 100% true CNBC A great story... and a fun new take on a moral as old as time: when you fly too close to the sun, you end up on the ground Washington Post '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 Jeff Guinn, author of 'Manson'
Author Information
Guy Lawson is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist whose articles on war, crime, culture, and law have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, Rolling Stone, GQ and Harper's.
