The trail of the poppy
Subtitle: behind the mask of the Mafia
By: by Charles Siragusa, as told to Robert Wiedrich.
Contributors: Wiedrich, Robert.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Drug control.; Mafia.
Description: Beginning with a chase that crosses continents, exploits from Aleppo to Adana, from Rome to Beirut, from Athens to a darkened road on the Turkish coast, this book traces the incredible career of Charles Siragusa, the federal narcotics agent whose exploits spanned twenty-five years and twenty-five years and twenty-nine countries.
Fast paced, action-packed, and full of suspense, this is the story of a crusade. Charles Siragusa was raised in the Mafia-ridden Italian ghetto of New York. He bore firsthand knowledge of the stranglehold of organized crime... and had sworn to devote his life to fighting it. As a member of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, he became so expert in the battle against the international trade in illegal narcotics that he served as a one man task force on assignment throughout the worked. He was instrumental in breaking some of the most complex narcotics smuggling operations.