Hunting El Chapo

Hunting El Chapo
Bok av Andrew Hogan
A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Centurys sensational investigative high-tech thrillersoon to be a major motion picture from Sonychronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapothe worlds most wanted drug kingpin who evadedthe lawfor more than a decade.Every generation has a larger-than-life criminal: Jesse James, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Al Capone, John Gotti, Pablo Escobar. But each of these notorious lawbreakers had a "e;white hat"e; in pursuit: Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett, Eliot Ness, Steve Murphy. For notorious drug lord Joaqun Archivaldo Guzmn-LoeraEl Chapothat lawman is former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Andrew Hogan. In 2006, fresh out of the D.E.A. Academy,Hogan heads west to Arizona where he immediately plunges into a series of gripping undercover adventures, all unknowingly placing him on the trail of Guzmn, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a Forbes billionaire and Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States. Six years later, as head of the D.E.A.s Sinaloa Cartel desk in Mexico City,Hogan finds his life and Chapos are ironically, on parallel paths: theyre both obsessed with the details.In a recasting of the classic American Western on the global stage, Hunting El Chapo takes us on Hogans quest to achieve the seemingly impossible, from infiltrating El Chapos inner circle to leading a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of trusted Mexican Marinesracing door-to-door through the cartels stronghold and ultimately bringing the elusive and murderous king-pin to justice. Thiscinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work of Hogan and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States and Mexico.