Undercover - Donald Goddard

DEA agent Michael Levine is an unsung hero in an endless war - the life-and-death struggle against the worldwide drug empire and the crime it engenders. A federal officer for 23 years, he is a master of modern undercover work who has refined it to an art form and has put it to work in a world that has little to do with "Miami Vice" fantasies. The drug trail often begins in grimy bars or crack houses and ends in Bogota or Bangkok, New York hotel rooms or Beverly Hills mansions.;His undercover methods follow a beautifully crafted pattern - assume an identity, ingratiate yourself, build a case, turn an offender into an informer and trace a conspiracy to its highest level. Within this basic structure and disguised as a priest, a Mafia soldier, a major Colombian dope dealer, a Puerto Rican middleman, he has brought to trial more than 3000 criminals and tracked drugs from American streets to their source - be it Thailand, Colombia, Bolivia or Panama.