In a recasting of the classic American Western on the global stage, Hunting El Chapo takes us on Hogan’s quest to achieve the seemingly impossible, from infiltrating El Chapo’s inner circle to leading a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of trusted Mexican Marines-racing door-to-door through the cartel’s stronghold and ultimately bringing the elusive and murderous king-pin to justice. Six years later, as head of the D.E.A.’s Sinaloa Cartel desk in Mexico City, Hogan finds his life and Chapo’s are ironically, on parallel paths: they’re both obsessed with the details. Academy, Hogan heads west to Arizona where he immediately plunges into a series of gripping undercover adventures, all unknowingly placing him on the trail of Guzmán, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a Forbes billionaire and Public Enemy No. For notorious drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán-Loera-El Chapo-that lawman is former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Andrew Hogan. But each of these notorious lawbreakers had a "white hat" in pursuit: Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett, Eliot Ness, Steve Murphy. Along the way, we meet his partners and colleagues at the FBI, who pull together for everything from bank jobs to the Boston Marathon bombing case, mafia dons, and, perhaps most significantly, El Chapo himself and his Sinaloa Cartel.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.Įvery generation has a larger-than-life criminal: Jesse James, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Al Capone, John Gotti, Pablo Escobar. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, makes the busts, and carries out the arrests. Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys. In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to corrupt unions and SWAT work. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. And of those, less than 10% of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as "Special" by their titles alone, Michael McGowan is an outlier. "The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history.
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