yes i’m 100% sure there’s a very popular meme that’s been on reddit since 2010 about the book and I got curious and picked up a used copy on amazon 10 years ago. I don’t recall if made it to Gary’s bit of the book at all, i threw it out after a few chapters. It’s trash.

edit: i just downloaded it from annas to make 100% sure and god, the prologue is about Gary so maybe you remember it about as well as I do. It was exactly as shlocky as I recalled.

here’s an excerpt from the prologue, it’s all like this. And on god, the bad parts are probably all 100% true and worse the CIA are another level of evil but this book is just bad, Web is not a trustworthy narrator:

“I had no idea what my tipster looked like, so I scanned the faces in the courtroom, trying to pick out a woman who could be a drug kingpin’s girlfriend. She found me first.

“You must be Gary,” said a voice behind me.

I turned, and for an instant all I saw was cleavage and jewelry. She looked to be in her mid-twenties. Dark hair. Bright red lipstick. Long legs. Short skirt. Dressed to accentuate her positive attributes. I could barely speak.

“You’re. . .?”

She tossed her hair and smiled. “Pleased to meet you.” She stuck out a hand with a giant diamond on it, and I shook it weakly.

We sat down in the row of seats behind the prosecutors’ table, and I glanced at her again. That boyfriend of hers must be going nuts.

Excerpt From Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion Webb, Gary This material may be protected by copyright.