Chasing Shadows

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CHAOS MONEY is a character-driven nonfiction crime thriller about modern day international drugs trafficking, terrorism and geopolitical intrigue that connects the world in shocking and unexpected ways.Set in 2015 in the context of the Syrian civil war, the European refugee crisis, and an established global order that appears to be breaking apart, CHAOS MONEY is a true story about three very different men battling to control their own destinies as they hurtle through the hall of mirrors of the global shadow economy.Salvatore Pititto is an ambitious Mafia capo working on a vast cocaine shipment who becomes unexpectedly pulled into an arms-smuggling conspiracy. Mustafa Badreddine is a ghost-like master terrorist, wanted by governments across the world, who has been secretly dispatched to Syria for his final mission. And Jack Kelly is a veteran US Drug Enforcement Administration agent tasked with following a trail of dirty money seeping like tar across continents from a top-secret investigative unit based in Virginia.CHAOS MONEY will see the fates of these three men become fatally intertwined through a series of events that ends in the largest ever cocaine seizure in Colombian history, a targeted assassination in Damascus, and a sprawling international sting operation.Each of these men, born in radically different circumstances in the 1960s, is in their own way grappling with powerful and unstoppable forces that shape the world around us, forces which topple governments, send refugees fleeing across borders, and put guns in the hands of mercenaries and militias.Each has devoted their entire lives to their respective institutions, the DEA, the Mafia, and Hezbollah, and each will eventually be destroyed or betrayed by the thing they believe in the most.While the story principally takes place across two years, 2015 and 2016, CHAOS MONEY also uses flashbacks in Lebanon, Italy and the United States over the last thirty years to illuminate the historical conflicts, events and personal histories that have shaped the lives of these three men up to that point.It is through these historical arcs that the book will illuminate themes of betrayal, institutional disillusionment and intergenerational violence inside the vehicle of a high-stakes international crime and DEA procedural thriller.