War Dogs

<p><b>Guy Lawson''s <i>Arms and the Dudes</i> is the page-turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders - and how the US government turned on them.</b><br><br>In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, they bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The dudes then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul-until they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i>.<br><br>That''s the ''official'' story. The truth is far more explosive. It''s a trip that goes from a dive apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. <br><br>This is a story you were never meant to read.<br><br><b>''Like page-turning fiction, but 100% true'' - CNBC</b></p>