{"product_id":"the-last-narco","title":"The Last Narco","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecampesinos\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper- 'You'll never get El Chapo.'\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSuch is the fate of many who have dared to try to catch El Chapo, or oppose him. El Chapo is the world's most wanted drug lord, at large since he escaped from prison in 2001 after bribing guards to wheel him out in a laundry cart. His cartel moves thousands of tons of cocaine, marijuana and heroin into the US each year using tunnels, planes and submarines. He has made an estimated $20 billion, and appeared on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForbes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e magazine's Global Power List in 2009. He bribes or kills politicians, police, soldiers and those who betray him. He's hailed by locals as a folk hero. But the net is closing. Who will make the final move? There is no bigger crime story today, worldwide, than the Mexican drug war and the hunt for El Chapo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Last Narco\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e traces his life and the struggle to bring him to justice, through reportage and interviews with rival narcos, police and DEA sources. This is a non-fiction thriller to match Mark Bowden's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKilling Pablo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and Roberto Saviano's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGomorrah\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. It also tells a wider story- the brutal war between the cartels, the endemic state corruption and the US complicity in a conflict that is killing more people than Iraq.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Best of Used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":44270280966401,"sku":"2VCWGGRUP-Used","price":199.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/916f92o4PCL._SY425.jpg?v=1699870818","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/the-last-narco","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}