The Betrayal
The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers
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'A thriller-like tale ... [Mazur] is a good story-teller, with a flair for details that brings the criminal and their world to life' Daily Mail
'Bob Mazur delivers again ... he artfully takes the reader through the harrowing account of life as an undercover cop embedded in the drug cartels' BRYAN CRANSTON
'A book you can't put down, nor will you' JOSEPH PISTONE, aka Donnie Brasco
From the bestselling author who inspired Bryan Cranston's The Infiltrator.
Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medellín drug cartel, he re-emerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting.
Deployed to Panama, he worked, travelled, partied and washed millions with Central America's criminal elite. Partnered with a DEA task force agent, Mazur slipped effortlessly into Colombia's notorious Cali drug cartel. But as his underworld reputation skyrocketed, the operation started going dangerously off the rails.
Robert Mazur's riveting true story exposes the corruption at the heart of one of the most explosive undercover missions of his career.
Refusing to acknowledge the danger, Mazur was obsessed with seeing the mission through to its treacherous end: expose the Cali cartel, find out who betrayed him, and escape with his life. This is his true story.
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Mazur (The Infiltrator), a former agent in several federal agencies, recounts the challenges of working undercover to bring down drug kingpins in this engrossing if overly dramatized narrative. Following his first memoir—which detailed his efforts aimed at Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel while a U.S. Customs agent—he recounts another covert operation he conducted in the 1990s. After transferring to the DEA, Mazur infiltrated Colombia's Cali drug cartel posing as Robert Baldasare, the owner of a financial company, and amassed damning evidence against corrupt Colombian and Panamanian bankers and businessmen who were "tripping over one another to help Baldasare enhance the veils of secrecy that sheltered his movement of cocaine fortunes." With the narrative verve of a thriller, Mazur chronicles the looming threat of sudden, violent death—his operation was compromised repeatedly by corruption within the DEA—pulling readers in from the outset with a vivid description of almost being gunned down by thugs working for Cali Cartel money launderer Luis Latorre. However, his penchant for florid prose—guns are called "death machines;" another launderer's "pounding heart felt about to burst"—gives an unfortunately schlocky sheen to things. Still, admirers of his previous book will appreciate this thrilling real-life sequel.
