Deadly Business: The Story Of Sam Cummings - The World's Greatest Arms Dealer
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: New
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. Pages appears yellow.
Behind every modern conflict lies a shadowy supply chain, and at the center of the most explosive decades of the Cold War stood one man: Sam Cummings, the American entrepreneur who built a global empire selling surplus weapons to anyone with the cash to buy them. Deadly Business chronicles the audacious rise of Cummings from a young CIA operative to the founder of Interarmco, the world's largest private arms dealership, tracing how one man's commercial genius transformed the mechanics of international warfare. Authors Patrick Brogan and Albert Zarca construct a meticulously researched portrait of a figure who armed rebels, governments, and insurgents alike — operating with remarkable legality in a world desperate to look the other way. The book stands as a sharp-edged investigation into the murky intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and moral ambiguity, illuminating the uncomfortable truth that the machinery of war is, at its core, a business transaction. Brogan and Zarca write with the incisive authority of seasoned journalists, balancing thrilling narrative momentum with rigorous factual grounding, producing a work that is as much a Cold War document as it is a character study. For anyone who has ever wondered who profits when nations go to war, Deadly Business provides a chilling and definitive answer.
Author: Patrick Brogan And Albert Zarca
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Michael Joseph
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: New
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. Pages appears yellow.
Behind every modern conflict lies a shadowy supply chain, and at the center of the most explosive decades of the Cold War stood one man: Sam Cummings, the American entrepreneur who built a global empire selling surplus weapons to anyone with the cash to buy them. Deadly Business chronicles the audacious rise of Cummings from a young CIA operative to the founder of Interarmco, the world's largest private arms dealership, tracing how one man's commercial genius transformed the mechanics of international warfare. Authors Patrick Brogan and Albert Zarca construct a meticulously researched portrait of a figure who armed rebels, governments, and insurgents alike — operating with remarkable legality in a world desperate to look the other way. The book stands as a sharp-edged investigation into the murky intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and moral ambiguity, illuminating the uncomfortable truth that the machinery of war is, at its core, a business transaction. Brogan and Zarca write with the incisive authority of seasoned journalists, balancing thrilling narrative momentum with rigorous factual grounding, producing a work that is as much a Cold War document as it is a character study. For anyone who has ever wondered who profits when nations go to war, Deadly Business provides a chilling and definitive answer.