'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 organisations, something not easily done, and miraculously survived to tell his tale. Jesse Fink and Navia 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.' - Steve Murphy, DEA special agent who hunted down Pablo Escobar and the inspiration for Narcos 'Gripping story ... fascinating ... those interested in how the illegal drug trade and law enforcement interact will be rewarded.' -  Publishers Weekly 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. 'The best insider account ever written of the global cocaine trade and the outrageous but precarious lives of those at the top.' - Peter Walsh, author of Drug War: The Secret History 'Luis Navia made and lost a fortune: which is so often the case at the top level of international cocaine trafficking. PURE NARCO explains how that's possible and why the business is both richly rewarding while being a precarious and perilous existence. It also explains how the big deals were conceived, planned and delivered. The mechanics of the deals are set out here, as Luis explains the key stages required for a successful shipment and deal. No other book on drug trafficking provides this level of detail. 'I knew back in the 1990s that the work we were doing was groundbreaking, and that it was an era that would be looked back upon by historians. PURE NARCO is a great book and an important part of social history. I loved every page. Having this account from Luis Navia will be part of his legacy. If you have an interest in and want to understand how international drug trafficking really works, you must read PURE NARCO.' - Barry Clarke, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Investigation Officer (UK) '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.' - Ross Kemp, host, The Kempcast (podcast) 'During my 30-year career in federal law enforcement, I often wondered what the back story was to some of the people and organisations I investigated. Cops tend to only see the criminal and we forget that everyone has family and a story. PURE NARCO is a true story of redemption ... it offers a rare glimpse into the life of a drug smuggler from the MIAMI VICE era to the end of the millennium, when it all came crashing down for Luis Navia.' - Nigel Brooks, United States Customs Service Senior Special Agent '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.' - Jenny Queen, host, So What Do You Do All Day? (podcast) 'If Howard Marks was the king of the cannabis smuggle, Luis Navia is the Howard Marks of the cocaine trade.' - Graham Honey, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Senior Investigation Officer (UK) 'Luis Navia was one of the biggest drug traffickers ever known - but never heard of. Jesse Fink's in-depth, entertaining and informative account of Luis's life during the height of the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1980 and '90s is like a speck in the eyes of a race-car driver moving at 200 miles an hour, albeit a large speck. PURE NARCO reveals how a seemingly regular "businessman" can in reality be a successful drug trafficker.' - Vicente M. Garcia, United States Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge 'A rare insight into the drug traffickers' world and law enforcement's efforts to arrest them and seize the drugs.' - Graham Titmuss, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Investigation Officer (UK) 'PURE NARCO is pacy, uncensored and chaotic, as you'd expect from a book about trafficking cocaine, but Navia holds it together as storyteller and protagonist, racking out anecdotes with gusto and revealing ever knottier plotlines. By any measure, his is