Inside the Cartel

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'Thrilling...has the snap of a Hollywood script...compelling.' Wall Street Journal The gripping true story, that reads like fiction, of how legendary FBI Special Agent Martin Suarez went deep undercover - and lived a double-life for years - to infiltrate Colombia's most insidious drug cartels. Martin Suarez, a legend within the FBI who specialised in Colombian drug cartels, holds the record for the longest time spent continuously undercover. As his alter ego Manny, Martin followed the unspoken rules of the cartels: He knew the right lingo to use, the right whiskey to drink, the right watch to wear, the wrong questions to ask. He smuggled over $1 billion worth of cocaine into the United States for the Medellin Cartel and, as his cover deepened, he graduated to become a high-level money launderer for the North Coast Cartel. He helped wash tens of millions of dollars worth of drug money, ensnaring himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse while simultaneously exposing the Black Market Peso Exchange, the most insidious money laundering apparatus in the world that involved billionaire bankers, blue-chip American corporations, and even the President of Colombia himself. Martin was raised by a father who served in the - military and valorized the nobility of the FBI, and Martin stopped at nothing to allow his father to live vicariously through his son. He wanted nothing more than to make his father proud and to be a good husband to his wife, and a loving father to his two young

• Binding: Hardcover

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