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zare_i's review
4.0
Very fast paced book about a man who starts cooperation with Cali narco cartel in order to defeat Escobar only to be pulled ever deeper into crime life.
When he becomes aware that he no longer can leave the cartel alive he decides it is time to survive - and as a consequence decides to bring the cartel down.
Story is very fast paced and if it weren't for all the actual deaths and atrocities it would make a fantastic fiction thriller.
Recommended to everyone interested in criminal organizations and thrillers.
When he becomes aware that he no longer can leave the cartel alive he decides it is time to survive - and as a consequence decides to bring the cartel down.
Story is very fast paced and if it weren't for all the actual deaths and atrocities it would make a fantastic fiction thriller.
Recommended to everyone interested in criminal organizations and thrillers.
nanometers's review
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
4.5
Tale from which you seem to believe there is all the information with enough twists to know you won't know it all, even in seeing/reading so many projections of the events. Can tell Rempel spent time piecing together what he had.
jessskwara's review
5.0
This book was such an incredible story. It’s the story of Jorge Salcedo, the chief of security for the Cali cartel, who worked with the DEA to take down the entire cartel organization.
This book is the plot of season 3 of Narcos, which was almost 100% accurate to what actually happened.
It was very interesting to hear Jorge’s story from his own perspective, rather than the retelling of it from other characters’ POVs on the show (which is also really good btw).
10/10
This book is the plot of season 3 of Narcos, which was almost 100% accurate to what actually happened.
It was very interesting to hear Jorge’s story from his own perspective, rather than the retelling of it from other characters’ POVs on the show (which is also really good btw).
10/10
caitlinxmartin's review
1.0
This should have been a fast-paced popular history book on the Cali Cartel side of the Colombian drug wars and I suppose it must have been, although it wasn't fast-paced enough to keep my attention. It's decent narrative, but it sort of plods along and definitely suffers from being nowhere near as good as News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's probably not fair to compare the two, but I've decided that for me, News of a Kidnapping is the definitive word on the predations and destructiveness of the Colombian drug war. Just not the book for me.
lori9274's review
5.0
The story behind "Narcos" season 3
Thoroughly researched account of the courageous informant who brought down the Cali cartel. The book was a real page turner.
Thoroughly researched account of the courageous informant who brought down the Cali cartel. The book was a real page turner.
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