Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord
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.
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Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord
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.
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Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord

Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord

Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord

Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062663092
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: 03/19/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 346
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

A former deputy-sheriff from Kansas, Special Agent Andrew Hogan graduated from the D.E.A. Academy and moved to Arizona in 2006 to work undercover inside the Sinaloa Cartel. In December 2012, he moved his family to Mexico City to head the D.E.A.’s Sinaloa Cartel desk, leading a manhunt that ultimately led to the capture of multibillionaire drug-lord and escape-artist El Chapo Guzmán.

Douglas Century is the author and coauthor of numerous bestselling books including Hunting El Chapo, Under and Alone, Brotherhood of Warriors, Barney Ross: The Life of a Jewish Fighter, and Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire, a finalist for the 2003 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. His most recent book, No Surrender, coauthored with Chris Edmonds, was published by Harper One and was the recipient of a 2020 Christopher Award. A veteran investigative journalist, Century’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Tablet and the Guardian.

Table of Contents

Prologue El Niño De La Tuna 1

Part I

Breakout 9

The New Generation 27

El Canal 37

Team America 49

Part II

La Frontera 65

Df 75

Badgeless 89

Top-Tier 105

Abra La Puerta 125

Duck Dynasty 141

Los Hoyos 151

Part III

La Paz 171

Follow The Nose 193

Lion's Den 209

The Drop 219

Su Casa Es Mi Casa 235

El 19 245

Miramar 261

The Man In The Black Hat 271

Qué Sigue? 285

Epilogue

Shadows 297

Maps 313

Acknowledgments 315

A Note On Sources 321

Glossary 323

Index 331

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