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.
Every generation has a larger-than-life criminal: Jesse James, Billy the
Kid, John Dillinger, Al Capone, John Gotti, Pablo Escobar. But each of
these notorious lawbreakers had a "white hat" in pursuit: Wyatt Earp,
Pat Garrett, Eliot Ness, Steve Murphy. For notorious drug lord Joaquín
Archivaldo Guzmán-Loera--El Chapo--that lawman is former Drug
Enforcement Administration Special Agent Andrew Hogan.
In 2006, fresh out of the D.E.A. 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. 1 in the United States. 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.
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.
This cinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work
of Hogan and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader
behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous
counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States and
Mexico.
