King of the Drugbusters

摘要

Fast-talking, streetwise and cool as ice, Andrew Chambers was utterly convincing when he played the role of a big-time drug dealer. For 16 years, working undercover for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Chambers would fly into a strange city, make contact with local druggies and pass himself off as a gangsta Crip from L.A., a coke dealer from St. Louis or a half-Cuban heroin dealer from Miami. He talked the talk and walked the walk—a consummate actor, the Eddie Murphy of confidential informants. "Some people have the ability to sing or paint," says Jeff McCaskill, a former DEA agent who ran some of Chambers's more successful stings. "He has the ability to get in with those types ofpeople and make them believe."