All Quiet at Mena: A reporter's memoir of buried investigations

by Mara Leveritt

Overview

All Quiet at Mena examines the deep secrecy that has shrouded investigations of Barry Seal, the murdered cocaine smuggler and DEA informant, who hid his planes at the small airport in Mena, Arkansas.

Drawing on extensive interviews with state and federal investigators, access to hundreds of FBI records, and her reporter's familiarity with the state, Mara Leveritt exposes the cover-up that thwarted almost every attempt to penetrate Seal's activity there.

Even today, decades after Seal's murder, sensitivities about this obscure piece of drug war history remain so acute that the resistance Leveritt encountered in writing the book became an unexpected part of the story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162259909
Publisher:	Bird Call Press
Publication date:	08/04/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	1,009,297
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Mara Leveritt, a veteran Arkansas investigative reporter, also wrote THE BOYS ON THE TRACKS, about suspected corruption in a series of murders that remain unsolved, and DEVIL'S KNOT, in which she examined the internationally condemned conduct of police, prosecutors and judges in the case of the men known as the West Memphis Three.