INTERPOL

Hardback, 1st UK edn. Interpol is a unique grouping of police forces from across the world that has always maintained closely guarded secrecy and a deliberately low profile. Still today, few people realise that Interpol has offices in 158 capitals across the world, and, in the USA, in 50 major cities besides. The author leads the reader through untold tales of undercover work, conspiracies and bravery, as the world's policemen take on the ruthless mobsters of the Mafia, the death-dealing drug cartels of Colombia, the dangerous extremests of international terrorism, the ingenious schemers of white-collar crime, the world-wide fraudsmen of money laundering - and much more. For the first time ever, we can read of Interpol's heyday of the 1930s crime, the murky years when it fell into the hands of Hitler's Gestapo, its rebirth in 1946 and through to its renaissance during the 1980s, under the first British boss of the organisation - Raymond Kendall - and the US secret services and the FBI. An illuminating and perceptive account of the extraordinary story of this unique organisation. Illus., Selected Bibliog. and Index. 404pp. lge 8vo. h/back. Lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. in F. protected dw. A fairly heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas.