Pure narco : one man's true story of 25 years inside the cartels / Jesse Fink and Luis Navia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fink, Jesse, author.

Navia, Luis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navia, Luis.

Cocaine industry--United States.

Cocaine industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

Summary:

Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America's biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia's adjustment to civilian life after prison.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword: The Trip

Introduction: Life on a Coin Toss

Prologue: Do the Right Thing

PART 1: TAKEDOWN

1. El Senador

2. The Venezuelan Job

3. Midnight Run

4. The Cab Ride

5. Flight to Maracaibo

6. Into the Black

7. The Gringo

PART 2: ROCK 'N' ROLL DRUMMER

8. Silver Platter

9. Tom Sawyer Land

10. Grams in Georgetown

11. The FM Scam

12. Deathtrap

PART 3: BISCAYNE BANDIDO

13. La Mona

14. Sucking Tit for Milk

15. Blue Boxes

16. Stalin in the Flesh

17. Disco Champagne

18. Drive, He Said

19. Ballad of a Well-­Known Gun

PART 4: THE NETWORK

20. Navia's 11

21. Dirty Work

22. Dead-­Shark Eyes

23. Night Train

PART 5: WILD WEST

24. Santa Marta Gold

25. The Spaghetti Incident

26. Kilo of Thorns

27. River of Blood

28. Sugar King of Palm Beach County

PART 6: WAR ZONE

29. Five Units of Fercho

30. Body in a Barrel

31. Going Down

32. The Night They Shot Galán

33. Two Toucans

34. Death at Dog Rocks

PART 7: SCARFACE

35. Felony Favors

36.The Wake

37. Real Crazy Motherfuckers

38. The Prisoner of Cartago

PART 8: BLAME IT ON CANCÚN

39. Fire in the Lake

40. Chasing a Ghost

41. Dead in the Water

42. The Board Meeting

43. The Firm

PART 9: MAGOO IN MEXICO

44. Dinner with Alberto

45. Airdrops and Raindrops

46. The Crocodile Thing

47. Out of Breath

PART 10: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

48. I Don't Like Cocaine (I Love It)

49. The Separation

50. The Postcard

51. Burnt Out

52. Under the Gun

53. The Heat

PART 11: AN INFILTRATED SITUATION

54. The Phone Call

55. The Butterfly Effect

56. The Snitch

57. Shitting Match

58. Atlantic Crossing

59. Nick the Fish

60. Clear and Present Danger

PART 12: SOWING THE SEEDS OFLOVE

61. The Business Deal.

62. The Roadmap

63. Closed Doors

64. Rule 35

65. The Typewriter Room

66. God Exists

PART 13: FLICK OF THE SWITCH

67. Everything Kills People

68. Team America

69. Smoke and Mirrors

70. The Forbidden Apple

71. There Is No War

72. Crossing the Line

PART 14: THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

73. Stockholm Syndrome

74. Collateral Damage

75. The Heaven Part of Hell

76. Crooked Road

77. On the Hook

Epilogue: The Icepick

Narco Nicknames

Characters

Acronyms

Gazetteer

Operation Journey: By the Numbers

Glossary

Criminal Organizations

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Endnotes

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5381-5558-3

OCLC:

1281988519