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Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 592 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 237x165x37 mm, kaal: 907 g, Illustrations; Maps; Halftones, Color including Color Photographs
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jan-2022
  • Kirjastus: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN-10: 1538155516
  • ISBN-13: 9781538155516
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 592 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 237x165x37 mm, kaal: 907 g, Illustrations; Maps; Halftones, Color including Color Photographs
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jan-2022
  • Kirjastus: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN-10: 1538155516
  • ISBN-13: 9781538155516
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Drawing on interviews with Navia, Navia’s family and a dozen law enforcement agents in the US and Great Britain, this gripping book tells the story of arguably America’s biggest cocaine trafficker, Luis Antonio Navia, and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time. Illustrations.

"Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America's biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest anti-narcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia's adjustment to civilian life after prison"--

Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America’s biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia’s adjustment to civilian life after prison.

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The Goodfellas of cocaine, Pure Narco is the extraordinary life story of Luis Antonio Navia, arguably the biggest cocaine trafficker in American history.
Maps
xviii
Foreword: The Trip xxii
Eric Kolbinsky
Introduction: Life on a Coin Toss xxv
Jesse Fink
Prologue: Do the Right Thing 3(4)
PART 1 TAKEDOWN
Chapter 1 El Senador
7(4)
Chapter 2 The Venezuelan Job
11(4)
Chapter 3 Midnight Run
15(5)
Chapter 4 The Cab Ride
20(3)
Chapter 5 Flight to Maracaibo
23(4)
Chapter 6 Into the Black
27(4)
Chapter 7 The Gringo
31(6)
PART 2 ROCK `N' ROLL DRUMMER
Chapter 8 Silver Platter
37(5)
Chapter 9 Tom Sawyer Land
42(4)
Chapter 10 Grams in Georgetown
46(4)
Chapter 11 The FM Scam
50(4)
Chapter 12 Deathtrap
54(5)
PART 3 BISCAYNE BANDIDO
Chapter 13 La Mona
59(5)
Chapter 14 Sucking Tit for Milk
64(3)
Chapter 15 Blue Boxes
67(4)
Chapter 16 Stalin in the Flesh
71(4)
Chapter 17 Disco Champagne
75(5)
Chapter 18 Drive, He Said
80(5)
Chapter 19 Ballad of a Weil-Known Gun
85(8)
PART 4 THE NETWORK
Chapter 20 Navia's 11
93(8)
Chapter 21 Dirty Work
101(7)
Chapter 22 Dead-Shark Eyes
108(6)
Chapter 23 Night Train
114(9)
PART 5 WILD WEST
Chapter 24 Santa Marta Gold
123(7)
Chapter 25 The Spaghetti Incident
130(4)
Chapter 26 Kilo of Thorns
134(6)
Chapter 27 River of Blood
140(4)
Chapter 28 Sugar King of Palm Beach County
144(11)
PART 6 WAR ZONE
Chapter 29 Five Units of Fercho
155(6)
Chapter 30 Body in a Barrel
161(4)
Chapter 31 Going Down
165(5)
Chapter 32 The Night They Shot Galan
170(6)
Chapter 33 Two Toucans
176(4)
Chapter 34 Death at Dog Rocks
180(5)
PART 7 SCARFACE
Chapter 35 Felony Favors
185(5)
Chapter 36 The Wake
190(7)
Chapter 37 Real Crazy Motherfuckers
197(6)
Chapter 38 The Prisoner of Cartago
203(12)
PART 8 BLAME IT ON CANCUN
Chapter 39 Fire in the Lake
215(6)
Chapter 40 Chasing a Ghost
221(6)
Chapter 41 Dead in the Water
227(4)
Chapter 42 The Board Meeting
231(3)
Chapter 43 The Firm
234(7)
PART 9 MAGOO IN MEXICO
Chapter 44 Dinner with Alberto
241(10)
Chapter 45 Airdrops and Raindrops
251(5)
Chapter 46 The Crocodile Thing
256(5)
Chapter 47 Out of Breath
261(6)
PART 10 CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Chapter 481 Don't Like Cocaine (I Love It)
267(4)
Chapter 49 The Separation
271(4)
Chapter 50 The Postcard
275(5)
Chapter 51 Burnt Out
280(5)
Chapter 52 Under the Gun
285(6)
Chapter 53 The Heat
291(6)
PART 11 AN INFILTRATED SITUATION
Chapter 54 The Phone Call
297(3)
Chapter 55 The Butterfly Effect
300(7)
Chapter 56 The Snitch
307(5)
Chapter 57 Shitting Match
312(3)
Chapter 58 Atlantic Crossing
315(6)
Chapter 59 Nick the Fish
321(3)
Chapter 60 Clear and Present Danger
324(5)
PART 12 SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE
Chapter 61 The Business Deal
329(3)
Chapter 62 The Roadmap
332(4)
Chapter 63 Closed Doors
336(6)
Chapter 64 Rule 35
342(6)
Chapter 65 The Typewriter Room
348(5)
Chapter 66 God Exists
353(6)
PART 13 FLICK OF THE SWITCH
Chapter 67 Everything Kills People
359(7)
Chapter 68 Team America
366(4)
Chapter 69 Smoke and Mirrors
370(5)
Chapter 70 The Forbidden Apple
375(6)
Chapter 71 There Is No War
381(5)
Chapter 72 Crossing the Line
386(5)
PART 14 THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Chapter 73 Stockholm Syndrome
391(4)
Chapter 74 Collateral Damage
395(4)
Chapter 75 The Heaven Part of Hell
399(7)
Chapter 76 Crooked Road
406(7)
Chapter 77 On the Hook
413(86)
Epilogue: The Icepick
417(3)
Narco Nicknames
420(1)
Characters
421(9)
Acronyms
430(3)
Gazetteer
433(7)
Operation Journey: By the Numbers
440(1)
Glossary
441(6)
Criminal Organizations
447(2)
Acknowledgments
449(3)
Bibliography
452(16)
Endnotes
468(31)
Index 499(13)
About the Authors 512
Jesse Fink worked for two decades as a journalist, editor and columnist but is best known as the author of two internationally bestselling biographies, Bon: The Last Highway and The Youngs: The Brothers Who Build AC/DC. Finks books collectively have been translated into 13 languages and released in over 20 countries. Pure Narco is his fifth book.

Luis Navia worked for nearly 25 years as a cocaine trafficker for the deadliest Colombian and Mexican cartels until he was arrested in the multinational sting Operation Journey in 2000. He was released in 2005 and began a new career in construction. Today he also runs his own consulting business for private clients and liaises with the US Government in matters related to antinarcotics law enforcement.