Snatched

Snatched From Drug Queen to Informer to Hostage--a Harrowing True Story

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Hardback (19 Apr 2016)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade.After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to members of a new task force being formed by the DEA. They induce Pilar, now a middle-aged woman, to infiltrate the Cali cartel as the head of a vast money laundering sting. Named "Operation Princess," the scheme leads to the seizure of tens of millions of dollars, along with some $500 million worth of cocaine and the exposure of hundreds of high-level traffickers, becoming one of the most daring and successful stings in DEA history. But Pilar plays her part too well. Her success as a money laun

Book information

ISBN: 9781250031778
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 363.450973
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 313 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 499g
Height: 239mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 28mm