The Golden Triangle is a mountainous region of Myanmar between Thailand and China. There, the Wa narco-state and its 30,000-strong army, equipped with missiles and attack drones, make Mexican cartels look like street gangs.

The production of heroin and amphetamines finances the Wa State, a veritable nation with its own laws, anthems, schools, and electrical grid.

And you've probably never heard of them.

In this work of investigative journalism that reads like a thriller, Patrick Winn uncovers the story of Asia's largest drug trafficking organization and the CIA and DEA's struggle to destroy it.

In this incredible story, you'll find headhunters and sorcerers, warlords, missionaries and mercenaries, CIA-DEA power struggles, geopolitics, covert missions, and embarrassing failures.

Too unbelievable to be true. And yet, it is.