One night in the 1990s, a Honda Civic pulled up alongside Martin Suarez, who was arriving home after a night out with his wife and their two young sons. “I couldn’t make out any faces,” he writes, “but today, thirty years later, I can still hear the guy’s voice.” We’re going to kill you, the stranger said before speeding away. Suarez was shaken but not surprised. This kind of thing happens when you try to topple a crime syndicate.
Suarez’s memoir—Inside the Cartel: How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash, and Dismantled a Colombian Narco Empire—is full of gripping scenes. A gun battle breaks out in a quiet neighborhood. A plane ferries bales of cocaine to a boat waiting in the Caribbean Sea. Undercover agents wear wires to risky meetings, gathering evidence leading to dozens of convictions. In the middle of it all is Suarez, whose work, he writes, took hundreds of millions of dollars of drugs off the street.
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