Kingpins & Coyotes: 25 Years as a Special Agent Hunting Drug Cartel Bosses and Human Smugglers

The insider account of America's border crisis that few others could write. Go inside the investigations, the wire rooms, and the desert corridors with the special agent who helped take down El Chapo-and realized the system was still winning.

Eric S. Balliet began his federal law-enforcement career on July 26, 1999, as a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the front lines of the U.S.-Mexico border. On September 11, 2001 - his second day in the U.S. Customs office, Balliet watched the towers fall. Sh...