Deep Cover: Why you'll be hooked on this Sons of Anarchy-meets-Narcos podcast
OPINION: Some stories are so unbelievable that, when you hear them, you think that surely someone has made this up. But, on further examination, some details are so specific that they have to be true. New podcast Deep Cover is one of these stories. Its the tale of an FBI agent who goes undercover and infiltrates a biker gang, something that eventually leads to the invasion of a foreign country and the arrest of a dictator. The story begins when host Jake Halpern meets former FBI agent Ned Timmons, who has written a novel about his time undercover with a Detroit biker gang. READ MORE: * The Deep: Zoe Marshall launches podcast exploring secret lives and deep secrets * Why these are just the podcasts you need for gossip and comic relief * Cautionary Tales, Slow Burn: Podcast tales to explain the now Halpern, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is sceptical at first, but soon becomes hooked on extracting the real story and tracking down everyone involved and cross-referencing it. Timmons tells Halpern about his time undercover in 1980s Detroit, when he arrested a violent biker outlaw, who decided that rather than go to jail hed turn FBI informant. Timmons goes deeper undercover with his informant ,infiltrating multiple gangs and hears lots of chatter about a drug smuggling syndicate, a massive drug warehouse and a source named Shine, who could be the key man in the operation. Each episode of Deep Cover exposes more twists and turns and leads to Panama and a large-scale drug cartel involving the dictator General Manuel Noriega. There are first-hand interviews with Timmons, some fellow FBI agents, gang members and drug smugglers. Halperns investigative reporting makes this podcast a hybrid of a real-life Sons of Anarchy- meets- Narcos story and youll be hooked. New episodes of Deep Cover are released every Monday.