Sull'Autore
She is a correspondent in Time magazine's Washington bureau. (Bowker Author Biography)
Opere di Elaine Shannon
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Shannon, Elaine
- Data di nascita
- 1946-11-16
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Gainesville, Georgia, USA
- Attività lavorative
- correspondent
author
Utenti
Recensioni
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 129
- Popolarità
- #156,299
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 22
- Lingue
- 2
The Good – Elaine Shannon succeeds in portraying LeRoux as charismatic (when he wants to be) but an amoral monster. She had great access to the DEA and provides compelling portrayals of the individuals in the 960 group – the unit that investigates DEA’s hardest cases.
The Bad - While the book does a good job detailing the investigation and is an easy read, I would have appreciated some more depth on how LeRoux built and maintained his empire as well as the investigation. More problematic, Elaine Shannon seems to have based the book on DEA and court documents – she clearly has great sympathy for their agents but that makes the book seem like an extended press release.… (altro)