Chasing Shadows is a compulsive, high-stakes true crime thriller about the dark depths of global capitalism written by Miles Johnson, an award-winning investigative reporter at the Financial Times; he specialises in covering organised crime and financial corruption across the world. He takes us on a deep and engrossing voyage into the heart of South American cartels, Italian organised crime, Middle Eastern money launderers and more. The addictive story speeds along following the connected lives of three men: relentless Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Jack Kelly, ambitious Mafia capo Salvatore Pititto and shadowy master terrorist Mustafa Badreddine. Chasing Shadows will see the fates of these three men become fatally intertwined through a series of events that ends in the largest-ever cocaine seizure in Colombian history, a targeted assassination in Damascus and a sprawling international sting operation. We live in an age where a new breed of world leaders act like crime bosses, and crime bosses act like c.e.os of multinational companies. It's when these lines begin to blur uncontrollably that all hell breaks loose. This is a book that plunges the reader into places that are normally hidden from the general public to reveal dark secrets about the way the world around us really works. Full of excitement, twists, turns and tension so palpable you often find your heart in your mouth, this is the best type of thriller - full throttle, non-stop action, top drawer, unrelenting. That it's based on true events is just the cherry on top of a rather tasty, calorie-laden cake. Johnson even finds time to add a little dry humour to often dangerous and emotional situations. Overall, set in 2015, in the context of the Syrian civil war, the European refugee crisis and an established global order that appears to be breaking apart, these are tumultuous social and political times. Chasing Shadows is a character-driven nonfiction crime thriller about modern-day international drugs trafficking, terrorism and geopolitical intrigue that connects the world in shocking and unexpected ways. The book illuminates themes of betrayal, institutional disillusionment and intergenerational violence inside the vehicle of a high-stakes international crime and DEA procedural thriller. I cannot recommend it highly enough.