Hunting El Chapo

The DEA agent who caught El Chapo recounts the high-stakes, seven-year manhunt in this "cinematic . . . captivating first-person account" (USA Today).

Once a smalltown Kansas deputy sheriff, Andrew Hogan landed a job with the Drug Enforcement Administration, never imagining that he would eventually be put on the trail of Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera a.k.a. El Chapo: the leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Public Enemy Number One in the United States.


Six years later, Hogan links up with agents from Homeland Security Investigations to infiltrate Chapo's intricate and sophisticated underworld network . . . But who can they trust with their intel? Will the details of their top secret operation leak back to Chapo before the hunt even begins?

Hunting El Chapo follows Special Agent Hogan from the investigation's beginnings to leading a white-knuckle manhunt through the cartel's stronghold of Sinaloa. Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century's cinematic crime story follows every beat of the relentless search, taking the reader behind the scenes on one of the most dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States and Mexico.