Busting Drug Dealers: Diaries of a DEA Special Agent

by Michael Fredericks

Overview

While the rest of us were safe in our homes, DEA Special Agent Mike Fredericks was busting dopers around the world and preventing illicit drugs from hitting the streets in the US.

Written from his extensive diaries and court documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, the real-life adventures of Mike Fredericks read like fiction-and will either scare the pants off you or assure you that daring agents like Fredericks are on the job.

This memoir is the inside story of decorated Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Mike Fredericks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798987817544
Publisher:	Special Agent Press
Publication date:	04/30/2024
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Mike Fredericks worked as a sky marshal, US Customs Special Agent, and DEA Special Agent in overseas assignments in Colombia, Pakistan, the Caribbean, and South Asia, busting drug traffickers and enforcing US drug laws. After his retirement, and following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he trained international airline pilots on counterterrorism and vital aviation security procedures.

During his time in Colombia as part of the DEA, Fredericks investigated the infamous Medellin cocaine cartel, pursuing notorious traffickers Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder, and raiding jungle cocaine laboratories with the Colombian National Police, and more. Later, his award-winning team gained recognition for record-breaking financial seizures while disrupting cocaine and heroin trafficking in the Caribbean.
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Editorial Reviews

Mike Fredericks's riveting true stories provide a richly detailed window into his heroic work as a DEA Special Agent dedicated to halting the narcotics flow into our nation. He weaves stories of working with police and dedicated foreign counterparts, with deaths of colleagues, amoral informants, and corrupt as well as honest international counternarcotics counterparts. I was privileged to serve with Mike at our embassy in New Delhi, and can attest to his courage, integrity, and wit.

Special Agent Press - US Ambassador Harry Thomas

Mike Fredericks had an outstanding career as a DEA Special Agent. He excelled at his early domestic assignments in the Northwest of the US, and became a respected Senior Special Agent in the international drug law enforcement arena in the highly consequential narcotrafficking countries of Colombia and Pakistan during the 1980s. His mantra might have been 'can do, will do, because he was certainly a "could do, would do" agent. There is no greater accolade that a DEA Special Agent can receive.

Special Agent Press - Harold Doug Wankel

Mike takes you into the world of both domestic and international drug trafficking investigations that can only be told from the inside by someone who's walked the walk. He takes you through the volatile and unpredictable mazes working in Third World countries, and walking that fine line with confidential informants who'll play both ends for the biggest payday. A good read for those who want to understand the art of undercover, and conducting and investigating international conspiracy cases.

Special Agent Press - Richard Fiano

Ground truth from the foggy, bloody, occasionally funny front lines. Busting Drug Dealers, by Mike Fredericks, who spent twenty-seven years as a federal agent with the US Drug Enforcement Administration, is a full-immersion journey into shady places most of us don't think we want to see, not in real life, not even on cable news. It's a must read - a wild ride, from dismantling meth labs in the American West to ducking guerrillas in the Colombian jungle to evading assassins in Pakistan.

Special Agent Press - Elaine Shannon

Mike Fredericks is the real deal. Mike's journey takes the reader with him on his assignments both in the US and abroad, involving undercover work, rural meth labs, magic mushrooms, cocaine labs in the Colombia jungle manned by insurgent guerrillas, and heroin smuggling out of Pakistan. The survival skills he acquired prepared him for the worst day of his life, when a routine family ferry ride in the Mediterrean erupted into life and death survival. It's Law & Order International, and it's true.

Special Agent Press - Bob Nieves