Elaine Shannon, veteran correspondent for Time and Newsweek, is the author of Hunting LeRoux (Michael Mann Books, an imprint of Morrow/Harper Collins), with foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann. Other works: New York Times bestseller Desperados: Latin Drug Lords U.S. Lawmen and the War America Can’t Win, which served the basis for Michael Mann’s Emmy–winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: the Camarena Story, and its Emmy-nominated sequel, Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel. Also: No Heroes: Inside the FBI’s Secret Counter-Terror Force, with Danny O. Coulson, and The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, with Ann Blackman. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Books in order of publication:
| Desperados: Latin Druglords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win | 1988 |
| Desperados 8 | 1989 |
| Desperados 27 | 1989 |
| No Heroes: Inside the FBI’s Secret Counter-Terror Force | 1999 |
| he Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History | 2002 |
| Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire | 2019 |