Manhunters
How We Took Down Pablo Escobar
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3.7 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña
In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia. The partners, who began their careers as small-town cops, have been immortalised in Netflix's Narcos, a fictional account of their hunt for Escobar. Now, for the first time ever, they tell the real story of how they brought down the world's first narco-terrorist, the challenges they faced, and the innovative strategies they employed to successfully end the reign of terror of the world's most wanted criminal.
Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar. Between July 1992 and December 1993, Steve and Javier lived on the edge, setting up camp in Medellin at the Carlos Holguin Military Academy. There, they lived and worked with the Colombian authorities, hunting down a man who was thought by many to be untouchable. Their firsthand experience coupled with stories from the DEA's recently de-classified files on the search for Escobar forms the beating heart of Manhunters, an epic account of how agents risked everything to capture the world's most wanted man.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
What was it like to be an American DEA agent in Colombia in the early 1990s? Like living in a war zone is how Murphy and Pe a describe their time in Bogot spent hunting drug lord Pablo Escobar in this riveting account of the multinational effort to stop the man behind the Medell n Cartel. Besides supplying cocaine to America, Escobar was behind the kidnaping and assassination of his country's attorney general and the bombing of a passenger jet in 1989. Murphy and Pe a were paid 50% more than stateside DEA agents because of the danger of their mission, and their lives were put on the line multiple times. Through it all, the two agents became trusted partners and best friends, who watched Escobar surrender on TV in 1991, only to reactivate the search when the drug lord escaped from his prison cell the next year. When Escobar was gunned down by the Colombian police in 1993, people celebrated in Colombia, and, not coincidentally, the murder rate in Medell n dropped by 80%. This is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the major campaigns in the war on drugs. 100,000 copy announced first printing.)
Customer Reviews
Fairly Dull
I understand these two guys wanting the recognition they feel they deserve in the hunt for Escobar. Unfortunately this is a mundane run of the mill account with Escobar barely meriting a mention until you are well over half way through the book.
If you want lengthy passages on admin work and how to knot a tie then this is the book for you. This book has so much padding it’s the literary equivalent of one of those Amazon parcels that comes with a mountain of bubble wrap when all you have ordered is a pair of nail clippers.