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By Elaine Shannon
Elaine Shannon, contributing editor at The Cipher Brief, is a former correspondent for Time and Newsweek. Her latest book, Hunting LeRoux (Harper Collins, 2019), tells the exclusive story of DEA’s hunt for Paul LeRoux, a brilliant tech baron who coded cybersecurity for GCHQ, then went rogue, developed missile technology and terror weapons for Iran, brokered crystal meth for North Korea and organized a NATO-trained mercenary hit team. Other works: New York Times bestseller Desperados: Latin Drug Lords U.S. Lawmen and the War America Can’t Win, basis for filmmaker Michael Mann’s Emmy–winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: the Camarena Story; No Heroes: Inside the FBI’s Secret Counter-Terror Force; and The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, journalist and author Dan Morgan.
