The infiltrator: the true story of one man against the biggest drug cartel in history

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Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English

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The electrifying true story of Robert Mazur's life as an undercover agent who infiltrated one of the world's largest drug cartels by posing as a high-level money launderer -- the inspiration for the major motion picture The Infiltrator. Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating the Medellín Cartel's criminal hierarchy. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended -- some of whom still shape power across the globe -- knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in $1,000-per-night hotel suites, drank bottles of the world's finest champagne, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles, and flew in private jets. But under Mazur's Armani suits and in his Renwick briefcase, recorders whirred silently, capturing the damning evidence of their crimes. The Infiltrator is the story of how Mazur helped bring down the unscrupulous bankers who manipulated complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. It is a shocking chronicle of the rise and fall of one of the biggest and most intricate money-laundering operation of all time-an enterprise that cleaned and moved hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Filled with dangerous lies, near misses, and harrowing escapes, The Infiltrator is as bracing and explosive as the greatest fiction thrillers -- only it's all true.

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9780316077521

Table of Contents

From the Book - First Back Bay paperback edition.

In the beginning
The birth of Robert Musella
Setting the stage for the Colombians
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International
The jeweler
The golden hook
The magic of Panama
Pushing buttons
Politics
Los Duros and Los Angeles
Luring them in
The fight before Europe
The European plan
Medellin invades Paris
Revelations
The enemy within
The first big catch
The confessional
Loose ends
The takedown
Battles
the trials.

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