Edward Follis - The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

THE LAWMEN

Edward Follis: DEA Special Agent; St. Louisborn; former United States Marine Corps military policeman; initially detailed with Group Four of the Los Angeles Division

General Mohammad Daud Daud: a former mujahideen who fought for years against the Soviet invasion; later established and headed Afghanistans first counter-narcotics police force (CNPA)

Rogelio Guevara: DEA Special Agent; supervisor of Group Four in the Los Angeles Division; gravely wounded while working undercover in Monterrey, Mexico

Jos Martinez: DEA Special Agent with Group Four of the Los Angeles Division; nearly fatally wounded in a shooting incident with drug traffickers in 1988

Paul Seema: DEA Special Agent; born in Thailand; murdered in a drug deal gone bad in Pasadena, California, in 1988

George Montoya: DEA Special Agent; also murdered in Pasadena, California, in 1988

William Billy Queen: Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF); detailed the Heroin Enforcement Group in the Los Angeles Division of the DEA

Mike Holm: DEA Special Agent who, after serving many years in Beirut and Cairo, making cases against traffickers in the Middle East, became associate special agent in charge of the Los Angeles Division

John Zienter: assistant special agent in charge of the DEAs Los Angeles Division

Jimmy Soiles: DEA Special Agent; detailed to French country office located in Paris, France; later Deputy Chief of Operations in Office of Global Enforcement for the Drug Enforcement Administration

Rudy Barang: DEA Special Agent; assigned to Bangkok

Mike Bansmer: DEA Special Agent and Resident Agent in Charge, Songkhla, Thailand; spent almost a decade making cases against the Shan United Army

Don Sturn: DEAs assistant attach in Bangkok

Don Ferrarone: longtime DEA Special Agent in the United States; later DEAs country attach to Thailand, based in Bangkok

Don Carstensen: head of the Organized Crime Unit in the prosecutors office in Honolulu, Hawaii

Charles Marsland: prosecutor of Honolulu, Hawaii, whose son Charles Chuckers Marsland was killed in a brutal murder in the 1980s

Enrique Kiki Camarena: DEA Special Agent who, while in Guadalajara investigating the increasingly powerful cocaine cartels, was brutally tortured and murdered in 1988, spawning a major diplomatic conflict between the governments of Mexico and the United States

Ambassador Ronald Neumann: veteran State Department official; appointed ambassador to Afghanistan, where he served in Kabul from 200507

Steve Whipple: DEA Special Agent detailed to the Jurez Cartel Task Force in El Paso, Texas, with Special Agent Follis; expert in wiretapping and other legal strategies to combat Mexican cocaine cartels

THE TRAFFICKERS AND SUSPECTS

Haji Juma Khan: major opium trafficker and Taliban financier; power base was in the Baluchistan region near the Iranian border; estimated to have provided hundreds of millions in funds to Taliban insurgents

Khun Sa: nom de guerre of Chung Chi Fu, leader of the Shan United Army drug-funded insurgency based in Burma and northern Thailand; reputedly responsible for 70 percent of the heroin in the United States during the 1990s

Dr. Dragan: heroin and arms trafficker; worked in Los Angeles to acquire military weapons for Shan United Army insurgency

Kayed Berro: high-ranking financial officer within the Berro heroin trafficking organization of Lebanon; hiding in Southern California after being sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court for drug trafficking

Mohammad Berro: patriarch of the Lebanon-based Berro heroin trafficking organization; based in Lebanon and the north of Israel

Ling Ching Pan: a major financial officer and lieutenant in the Shan United Army; based in Bangkok, Thailand

Sam Essell: boss of the Essell narcotics and organized crime group; responsible for major importation of narcotics to the United States; based in Lagos, Nigeria

Christian Uzomo: chief lieutenant in the Essell narcotics and organized crime group, based in California

William Brumley and Mike Lancaster: violent associates of the Essell narcotics importation and organized crime group; known for dealing in illegal weapons and producing silencers

Harvey Franklin: associate of the Essell organized crime group; a Crips gang affiliate known for dealing in heroin, stolen bearer bonds, and supernote counterfeit currency

Ronnie Ching: hit man for major Hawaiian drug traffickers and organized crime; ultimately confessed to committing nineteen murders

Phong: street nickname for a chief lieutenant in the Shan United Army; based in the north of Thailand

Amado Carrillo Fuentes: the so-called Lord of the Skies; boss of Jurez Cartel; the de facto CEO of a sprawling cocaine empire; estimated net worth of $25 billion; ranked by the DEA as the most powerful cocaine trafficker in the world in the mid-1990s

Vicente Carrillo Fuentes: second-in-command in Jurez Cartel; some say the later successor to the position of boss of the cocaine-trafficking organization

Joaqun El Chapo Guzmn: originally a lieutenant in the Carrillo-Fuentes cartel; ultimately rose to the position of the most powerful drug lord of all time; ranked by Forbes magazine as the eighty-sixth richest man on earth