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Informationen zum Autor 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. 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. Klappentext A heart-stopping nonfiction thriller! Hunting El Chapo is the never-before-told story of former DEA special agent Andrew Hogan’s quest to track down and capture the world’s most-wanted drug kingpin. When Andrew Hogan landed a job with the Drug Enforcement Administration! little did the hard-charging former deputy sheriff from small-town Kansas know 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 a crack team of agents from Homeland Security Investigations to infiltrate Chapo’s sophisticated communication structure! probing deeper into Guzmán’s underworld and exposing the drug lord’s cleverly disguised network of interconnected safe houses! one by one. . . . 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 as he leads a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of trusted Mexican marines—piling into military helicopters! armored pickups! and SUVs; racing door-to-door through the cartel’s stronghold of Sinaloa. Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century’s cinematic crime story follows every beat of the relentless investigation! taking the reader behind the scenes on one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States and Mexico. Read by Robert Fass and Andrew Hogan Zusammenfassung A blend of Manhunt! Killing Pablo ! and Zero Dark Thirty ! Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century’s sensational investigative high-tech thriller—soon to be a major motion picture from Sony—chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo—the world’s most wanted drug kingpin who evaded the law for more than a decade. Every generation has a larger-than-life criminal: Jesse James! Billy the Kid! John Dillinger! Al Capone! John Gotti! Pablo Escobar. But each of these notorious lawbreakers had a "white hat" in pursuit: Wyatt Earp! Pat Garrett! Eliot Ness! Steve Murphy. For notorious drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán-Loera—El Chapo—that lawman is former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Andrew Hogan. In 2006! ...
