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For a quarter century, Luis Antonio Navia worked as a high-level cocaine transporter for all of the major Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, and flooded the United States and Europe with cocaine before his dramatic arrest in Venezuela in 2000 during the 12-nation Operation Journey. The story of Navia’s rise, fall, takedown, imprisonment, and redemption is expertly researched and told by acclaimed biographer Jesse Fink, who has gathered interviews with Navia, Navia’s family, and a dozen law-enforcement agents in the United States and Great Britain from agencies such as the DEA, ICE and Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise (now Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs). Told in vivid detail, this true crime story will captivate the reader from start to finish.

Table of Contents:
Maps Foreword: The Trip by DEA Special Agent (Retired) Eric Kolbinsky Introduction: Life on a Coin Toss by Jesse Fink Prologue: Do the Right Thing PART 1: TAKEDOWN Chapter 1 El Senador Chapter 2 The Venezuelan Job Chapter 3 Midnight Run Chapter 4 The Cab Ride Chapter 5 Flight to Maracaibo Chapter 6 Into the Black Chapter 7 The Gringo PART 2: ROCK ’N’ ROLL DRUMMER Chapter 8 Silver Platter Chapter 9 Tom Sawyer Land Chapter 10 Grams in Georgetown Chapter 11 The FM Scam Chapter 12 Deathtrap PART 3: BISCAYNE BANDIDO Chapter 13 La Mona Chapter 14 Sucking Tit for Milk Chapter 15 Blue Boxes Chapter 16 Stalin in the Flesh Chapter 17 Disco Champagne Chapter 18 Drive, He Said Chapter 19 Ballad of a Well-Known Gun PART 4: THE NETWORK Chapter 20 Navia’s 11 Chapter 21 Dirty Work Chapter 22 Dead-Shark Eyes Chapter 23 Night Train PART 5: WILD WEST Chapter 24 Santa Marta Gold Chapter 25 The Spaghetti Incident Chapter 26 Kilo of Thorns Chapter 27 River of Blood Chapter 28 Sugar King of Palm Beach County PART 6: WAR ZONE Chapter 29 Five Units of Fercho Chapter 30 Body in a Barrel Chapter 31 Going Down Chapter 32 The Night They Shot Galán Chapter 33 Two Toucans Chapter 34 Death at Dog Rocks PART 7: SCARFACE Chapter 35 Felony Favors Chapter 36 The Wake Chapter 37 Real Crazy Motherfuckers Chapter 38 The Prisoner of Cartago PART 8: BLAME IT ON CANCÚN Chapter 39 Fire in the Lake Chapter 40 Chasing a Ghost Chapter 41 Dead in the Water Chapter 42 The Board Meeting Chapter 43 The Firm PART 9: MAGOO IN MEXICO Chapter 44 Dinner with Alberto Chapter 45 Airdrops and Raindrops Chapter 46 The Crocodile Thing Chapter 47 Out of Breath PART 10: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Chapter 48 I Don’t Like Cocaine (I Love It) Chapter 49 The Separation Chapter 50 The Postcard Chapter 51 Burnt Out Chapter 52 Under the Gun Chapter 53 The Heat PART 11: AN INFILTRATED SITUATION Chapter 54 The Phone Call Chapter 55 The Butterfly Effect Chapter 56 The Snitch Chapter 57 Shitting Match Chapter 58 Atlantic Crossing Chapter 59 Nick the Fish Chapter 60 Clear and Present Danger PART 12: SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Chapter 61 The Business Deal Chapter 62 The Roadmap Chapter 63 Closed Doors Chapter 64 Rule 35 Chapter 65 The Typewriter Room Chapter 66 God Exists PART 13: FLICK OF THE SWITCH Chapter 67 Everything Kills People Chapter 68 Team America Chapter 69 Smoke and Mirrors Chapter 70 The Forbidden Apple Chapter 71 There Is No War Chapter 72 Crossing the Line PART 14: THE BELLY OF THE BEAST Chapter 73 Stockholm Syndrome Chapter 74 Collateral Damage Chapter 75 The Heaven Part of Hell Chapter 76 Crooked Road Chapter 77 On the Hook Epilogue: The Icepick Narco Nicknames Characters Acronyms Gazetteer Operation Journey: By the Numbers Glossary Criminal Organizations Acknowledgments Bibliography Endnotes Index About the Authors

About the Author :
Jesse Fink worked for two decades as a journalist, editor and columnist but is best known as the author of two internationally bestselling biographies, Bon: The Last Highway and The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC. Fink’s books collectively have been translated into 13 languages and released in over 20 countries. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Luis Navia worked for nearly 25 years as a cocaine trafficker for the deadliest Colombian and Mexican cartels until he was arrested in the multinational sting Operation Journey in 2000. He was released in 2005 and began a new career in construction. Today he also runs his own consulting business for private clients and liaises with the US Government in matters related to antinarcotics law enforcement. He lives in Miami, Florida.

Review :
Fink tells the gripping story of Luis Navia, a prominent Cuban American drug trafficker in the 1980s and ’90s. Navia’s well-to-do parents fled Cuba when he was a small boy after Castro’s 1959 takeover and settled in Miami. In later years, he had no interest in his father’s sugar trading business and partied in college while selling cocaine. From there he became a narco for Colombian and Mexican cartels, transporting billions of dollars in coke around the world. Known as El Senador for his classy fashion sense, Navia attributes his 25-year successful run to being a businessman and not a killer. But it all came to an end in 2000 with Operation Journey, a multinational drug bust that was the largest in history. In 2001, Navia took a plea deal in the U.S. and testified against cartel members in exchange for a four-year prison sentence. Almost as fascinating as his drug years is Fink’s account of how Navia has since led a wealthy lifestyle in Miami with extended family and friends. Though Navia won’t say how much money he has, Fink estimates he has millions stashed in offshore accounts. Those interested in how the illegal drug trade and law enforcement interact will be rewarded. Navia trafficked cocaine for decades, which ended in his takedown during the multinational Operation Journey in 2000; here, he and co-author Fink tell his story. In August 2000, a joint–law enforcement investigation between the U.S. and the British government resulted in the dismantling of a large drug-smuggling ring. Tons of drugs were seized, and arrests were made. Navia, a man who walked a tightrope of criminality and legitimacy, was nabbed after operating in the drug underworld for 25 years. Of Cuban heritage, Navia had worked for Colombia's Medellín and Cali cartels and gradually transferred his skills in working with various cartels in Mexico. He met and sometimes worked with the biggest names in the infamous underground empire: Pablo Escobar, Alberto Sicilia Falcon, the Ochoa Brothers. As recalled to coauthor Fink, Pure Narco amasses Navia's colorful recollections of past exploits in a candid yet guarded fashion. Navia disarms with his charisma and intelligence; his remorse is a little less apparent. He believes that the war on drugs is a hypocritical war with no end. Navia's insights make for a revelatory look inside the treacherous world of organized crime in this new true-crime classic. Pure Narco is an unbelievable insider’s look at the life and times of a real narco. During his 25-year criminal career, Luis Navia learned to work with all of the major Colombian cocaine manufacturing and distribution organizations, something not easily done, and miraculously survived to tell his tale. Navia and Jesse Fink provide a detailed and uncensored look at the underbelly of the beast, the international cocaine trade, and give an account that even most experienced law-enforcement professionals never see. Intriguing and thought provoking. While there is no perfect formula when it comes to telling a life story...there can be an almost ideal result. A truly gripping and detailed account about a life lived on the edge. A must read. The best insider account ever written of the global cocaine trade and the outrageous but precarious lives of those at the top. I have never read anything like this. I’ve never read anything that drew me in like Pure Narco in this genre, certainly. It drew me in like a great novel. Fascinating story. Pure Narco is quite an amazing book. It’s rare that you get someone who was involved in the illegal narcotics trade to talk so openly about their life and lifestyle. Luis Navia has stories for the fireside more than most.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798765179062
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels
  • ISBN-10: 8765179064
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2021
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 1


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