The story of these case-making agents is at the heart of the tragedy of the Bureau of Narcotics – and America’s fatally flawed war on drugs. For in the course of bringing down one predatory drug trafficker after another, these superlative agents were perpetually on the verge of uncovering the underworld’s clandestine relationship with America’s Establishment, that “exclusive group of powerful people who rule a government or society by means of private agreements and decisions.”1
