Isbn: 9781250031778 - snatched: from drug queen to informer to hostage--a harrowing true story (16 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. vi, 313, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Prologue; A Knock on the Door; Miss Colombia; Arriving in Paradise; Bogota; Prince of the City; Majorca; Meeting "Boston George"'; Happy again; Kingpins; Tom Selleck Returns; Bye-Bye, Ernesto; Operation Princess; First Pickup; The Deluge; Pilar's "Excitement Mode"; Taking Heat from the AG; Joe Blows a Fuse; Some Really Bad Shit; So Stupid!; The Cow Will Be Killed; What's Wrong with Me?; Hiding the Weenie; Do It While I'm Sleeping; Enter Nixon; Into the Jungle; WOO , WOO, Mamasota!, Homecoming!; The Verdict; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; and About the Author. Bruce Porter, a former newspaper reporter and editor of Newsweek, who taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Snatched and Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All, and he has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Connoisseur, among other publications. Snatched is the electric tale, by the New York Times bestselling author of Blow, Bruce Porter, that tells the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, with her life dangling in the balance. Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to members of a new task force being formed by the DEA. They induce Pilar, now a middle-aged woman, to infiltrate the Cali cartel as the head of a vast money laundering sting. Named "Operation Princess," the scheme leads to the seizure of tens of millions of dollars, along with some $500 million worth of cocaine and the exposure of hundreds of high-level traffickers, becoming one of the most daring and successful stings in DEA history. But Pilar plays her part too well. Her success as a money launderer gets her kidnapped and then ransomed by a band of guerrillas in South America--and the US government refuses to negotiate. It's left to her low-level handlers in the DEA to get her back, before it's too late and her kidnappers discover they have a federal agent in their clutches. Derived from a Kirkus review: A riveting account of a glamorous narcotrafficker ensnared by her past. Porter, whose previous book, Blow, spawned a Johnny Depp film, writes in a relaxed, comprehensible style that seems a good fit for the true-crime genre. The author constructs a sprawling narrative about the drug trade, focused on "Pilar," a noirish Central American femme fatale whose life followed several unlikely, high-risk tangents. As a rebellious, beautiful woman from an upper-class Colombian family, Pilar became involved with the burgeoning cocaine business of the 1980s, marrying two large-scale smugglers and participating in deals that permitted an addictively luxurious lifestyle. But once she'd settled in South Florida and extricated herself from the business, an imprisoned ex-husband "shopped" her to a DEA-run task force. With little resistance, she became a confidential informant in 1991, purportedly turning to the cash-laundering sideline that the cartels required, although her handlers "didn't buy the altruistic bullshit Pilar had expressed as her motivation." Still, the ambitious cops recognized Pilar's value: "Luring big operators out of their lair.that was the fantasy that captured the task force." Porter develops verisimilitude through interviews with major players, who engage in caustic recall about Pilar. Her money laundering setup worked too well, unnerving the feds, who began demanding arrests as well as intelligence. Indeed, every character seems motivated by cynicism: the macho agents seem addicted. Sara Jane Roszak (author photograph) (ilustrador). …

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on Title page in black pen, "To Marilyn Saul My & Sam's --------- & my valuable friend! Best Bruce Porter 4/11/16" First edition: April 2016 stated with complete number line. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 Book; binding tight, straight boards have minor to mild soiling with minor bump and small chip to top rear edge; text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket ($27.99) has mild bumping to spine and flap fold ends with 1/2" closed tear to bottom rear cover and crease to bottom front flap corner. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Several photographs. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Inscribed by Author(s). …