The Betrayal
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
From the bestselling author who inspired Bryan Cranston's The Infiltrator.




From the bestselling author who inspired Bryan Cranston's The Infiltrator.
From Robert Mazur, undercover agent and bestselling author of The Infiltrator, comes the riveting true story of grave corruption at the heart of one of the most explosive DEA missions of his career. Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medellín drug cartel, he reemerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. He was now Robert Baldasare, money launderer and president of an international trade finance company. Deployed to Panama, Mazur worked, traveled, partied, and washed millions with Central America's criminal elite. Partnered with a young superstar DEA task force agent, Mazur slipped effortlessly into Colombia's notorious Cali drug cartel. But as his underworld reputation skyrocketed, the operation started going dangerously off the rails. On US soil, drug money en route to Mazur was seized. He started to notice an unsettling shift in the cartel's inner circle. Contacts were being assassinated, and Mazur was being tailed. His identity had been compromised. Refusing to acknowledge the threats ahead, Mazur was obsessed with seeing the mission through to its treacherous end: expose the Cali cartel, find out who betrayed him, and escape with his life.
Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in expensive hotels, drank the world's finest champagnes, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles and flew in private jets. But under Mazur's designer suits and hidden away in his quality briefcase, recorders whirred quietly, capturing the damning evidence of their crimes. Then, at his own staged wedding, he led a dramatic takedown that shook the underworld. In the end, more than eighty men and women were charged worldwide. Operation C-Chase became one of the most successful undercover operations in the history of US law enforcement, and evidence gathered during the bust proved critical to the conviction of General Manuel Noriega
Pravdivý příběh zrádce kartelu Cali. Jenda z nejriskantnějších operací amerického protidrogového úřadu. Tři roky poté, co úspěšně infiltroval Escobarův kartel Medellín, se agent Robert Mazur, na jehož hlavu je stále vypsaná půlmilionová odměna, s novou identitou Roberta Baldasara vrací do akce. Baldasare byl vyslán do Panamy, kde pracuje, cestuje, flámuje a pere miliony se středoamerickou zločineckou elitou. Ale protože jeho pověst v podsvětí raketově stoupá, tajná operace se začíná vymykat z rukou. Na americké půdě jsou po cestě k němu zadrženy špinavé peníze. Ve vnitřním kruhu kartelu pozoruje znepokojivé změny. Baldasarovy kontakty zavraždili a on sám je sledován. Jeho tajná identita byla prozrazena. On ale pokračuje v nebezpečné hře, je posedlý tím dotáhnout misi do konce: odhalit kartel Cali, najít zrádce a vyváznout z toho všeho živý.