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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion War and Militarization this latest addition to theby Gary Webb Seven Stories Press 2014, paperback SKU: 9781609806217 Dark Alliance is a book that should be fiction, whose characters seem to come straight out of central casting: the international drug lord, Norwin Meneses; the Contra cocaine broker with an MBA in marketing, Danilo Blandon; and the illiterate teenager from the inner city who rises to become the king of crack, "Freeway" Ricky Ross. But unfortunately, these characters are real and their