{"product_id":"pure-narco-9e8ieu","title":"Pure Narco","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow does a young student majoring in Portuguese at Georgetown University in Washington, DC become one of the biggest drug smugglers on Earth? And how does he survive 25 years in the trade Ð and encounters with some of its most powerful and ruthless figures, from Pablo Escobar toÊNarcos: MexicoÕsÊAlberto Sicilia Falc—n Ð when he hates violence and never carries a gun?\u003cbr\u003e\nIn his decades in the business, the savvy, charismatic Luis Navia was responsible for hundreds of tonnes of cocaine making their way across the globe. In the process, he became a multimillionaire, but while living as a fugitive spent heavily on a lavish but wasteful lifestyle. All while Luis Ð torn between guilt and adrenalin Ð tried to maintain a semblance of normal family life as he frequently veered out of control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Pure Narco, Australian author Jesse Fink brilliantly tells this incredible story through the eyes of Luis, his family, and his wife and former lovers Ð as well as the relentless American law-enforcement officials who finally swooped and brought him to justice. ItÕs a white-powdered, white-knuckle ride youÕll never forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItÕs a life story that reads like something out of a John Grisham or Elmore Leonard novel that itÕs remarkable it has remained untold for so long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCareers in the cocaine-trafficking business are usually short. ItÕs not only a dangerous profession, fraught with the possibility of capture and long jail sentences, but it can be deadly if the cartels get to you first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot for Luis Antonio Navia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 25 years the Cuban-American smuggled hundreds of tons of white powder for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo EscobarÕs Medell’n Cartel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a profession populated by thugs, NaviaÕs dress sense and good manners earned him the nickname ÔEl SenadorÕ (The Senator). He refused to carry a weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat made him good at his job was amassing trusted contacts, losing very few shipments of coke, and keeping a low profile. He also maintained a normal family life with a Colombian wife and two young children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut he was never far removed from the most brutal violence imaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne friend got his head cut off. Another was hit over the head, put in a 55-gallon drum full of cement and dumped in a canal. Navia himself was kidnapped three times and went close to being fed alive to crocodiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSomehow through it all he managed to survive and spent two decades fooling the DEA and other law-enforcement agencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat was until he came under the radar of Robert Harley, a tenacious US Customs special agent in Key West, Florida, who was determined to bring him to justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat followed was an international game of cat-and-mouse that culminated in NaviaÕs 2000 arrest in Venezuela in one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time, the 12-nation Operation Journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning decades, continents and featuring a whoÕs who of the drug trade, Pure Narco is a fast-paced adventure ride into the dark underworld of cocaine trafficking, written with the cooperation of a dozen law-enforcement agents from the worldÕs top antinarcotics forces in the United States and Great Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt also contains insider insights into how the global drug business operates and offers some cogent solutions to the never-ending Ôwar on drugsÕ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNavia served his time in jail and is now free to tell his tale. His is the rare perspective of someone who has worked on both sides of that war: as a cocaine trafficker and US Government consultant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a redemption story. Luis Navia, the pure narco, has gone full circle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jesse Fink,ÊLuis Navia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49013898641561,"sku":"9781761046605","price":790.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/5642\/6905\/files\/pure-narco_18be75cd-a42f-4c8f-a7b9-21e1c153570c.jpg?v=1789228992","url":"https:\/\/booksworldstore.com\/products\/pure-narco-9e8ieu","provider":"Books World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}