The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics, and Espionage Intrigues That Shaped the DEA

by: Douglas Valentine

The Strength of the Pack (TrineDay, 2009) documents the secret history of federal drug law enforcement from the formation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in 1968, through the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, until the present time.

Many books to date have focused on individual aspects of federal drug law enforcement, but no book to date has plumbed as deeply or taken as comprehensive a view as this one.

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