- Title:
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Pure Narco
- Written by:
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Jesse Fink; Luis Navia
- Read by:
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Keith Scott
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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15 hours 38 minutes
- Published:
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September 29 2020
- Available Date:
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September 29 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655693642
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
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Price
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A life story that reads like something out of a John Grisham or Elmore Leonard tale that it’s remarkable it has remained untold for so long.
‘I was a drug trafficker in the true sense of the word: a pure narco.’
Careers in the cocaine-trafficking business are usually short. It’s 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. Not for Luis Antonio Navia. For 25 years the Cuban-American smuggled hundreds of tons of white powder for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Then an international game of cat-and-mouse culminated in Navia’s 2000 arrest in Venezuela in one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time, the 12-nation Operation Journey.
Spanning decades, continents and featuring a who’s who of the drug trade, Pure Narco is a fast-paced adventure ride into the dark underworld of cocaine trafficking.
Navia 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. This is a redemption story. Luis Navia, the pure narco, has gone full circle.