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In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Kirsch called Desperados "a sock-in-the-eye work of reporting about America’s losing struggle against the multinational, multibillion-dollar drug industry" Publishers Weekly stated that Shannon drew on 10 years of expertise covering the international drug scene for Newsweek to write about the 1985 torture-murder of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win, sold over 130,000 copies. Her first, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. She became a panelist on PBS's To the Contrary in 1993.

In April 1987, Shannon joined Time where she was a correspondent in their Washington, D.C. In October 1986, she left Newsweek to finish writing her New York Times best-selling book about the drug trade, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. She joined Newsweek in 1976 and covered the Presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale. Through her reporting, Shannon has built "an extensive network of sources as she covered the FBI, DEA, Customs and Justice departments, intelligence and terrorism." She frequently speaks on issues related to drug trafficking. Career Īccording to CNN, Shannon "has covered criminal justice issues, including international arms trafficking, drug trafficking and money laundering, organized crime, white collar crime, terrorism and espionage" since 1976. She spent a year at Harvard University where in 1974 she earned a Nieman Fellowship in journalism, then went to work for Newsday the following year. correspondent and covered the Senatorial campaign of Albert Gore Sr., the Presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon and George McGovern, and the Watergate scandal. In 1970 Shannon became the newspaper's Washington, D.C. While a senior at Vanderbilt, Shannon began working for the Nashville Tennessean where she reported on civil rights, police brutality, and prisoner abuse. She was an English major at Vanderbilt University where she graduated in 1968.

Shannon was born in Gainesville, Georgia, on November 16, 1946.