Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (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.'
Malcolm Beith is a writer based in Mexico City, covering the drug war for Newsweek. Between 2007 and 2009, he was the Mexico editor of The News, Mexico's national English-language daily. Prior to moving to Mexico in 2007 he was an editor at Newsweek International, based in New York, and reported regularly from conflict zones in Iraq, Haiti and Colombia.
It's Pablo Escobar all over again
*DEA Chief of Enforcement Operations*
Malcolm Beith risked life and limb to tell the inside story of El
Chapo, the notorious drug capo. A novelist could not have presented
a more intriguing or compelling tale of corruption, intimidation,
murder, blood feuds, life-and-death negotiations, and the
entrepreneurial skill of a near-mythic figure. Superb
*Professor George W. Grayson*
A brave and terrific headlong trek into the dangerous terrain of
drug trafficking
*Los Angeles Times*
Gracefully captures the heroic struggle of those who dare to stand
up to the cartels, and the ways those cartels have tragically
corrupted every aspect of Mexican law enforcement
*Producer, 'Traffic'*
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