Research Catalog

Title

Drug warrior : inside the hunt for El Chapo and the rise of America's opioid crisis / Jack Riley with Mitch Weiss.

Author

Riley, Jack, 1958-

Publication

• New York : Hachette Books, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Weiss, Mitch

Description

ix, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

"DEA Agent Jack Riley tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic. Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug warrior. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, who farmed marijuana and opium poppies as a teenager in Mexico, was born to be a drug lord. Their worlds collided when Riley, a career special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, was promoted to lead the fight against Chapo on the border at El Paso. Drug Warrior is the story of Riley's decades-long hunt for the world's most wanted drug lord, set against the rise of modern international drug trafficking, and America's spiraling opioid epidemic. Jack Riley started his career as an undercover street agent in Chicago busting small-time dealers. By the time he worked his way up to second in command of the DEA--a post few field agents ever reach--he had overseen every major mission to capture foreign drug kingpins since the 1990s, and had witnessed first-hand how El Chapo changed the game. As brilliant as he was lethal, Chapo not only decimated his competition, he foresaw Americans' dependence on opioids and heroin, and manipulated supply to increase demand. Riley's story culminates as he and the DEA win their greatest victory-the capture and extradition of his long-time nemesis-and Chapo faces his darkest fear: U.S. justice. A riveting memoir of life inside the drug wars, and a never-before-seen glimpse of the inner-workings of the DEA, Drug Warrior is a critical examination of how America's opioid crisis came to be, and the extraordinary people fighting it."--

Alternative Title

Inside the hunt for El Chapo and the rise of America's opioid crisis

Subjects

• Drug traffic
• Drug control
• Opioid abuse
• United States > Drug Enforcement Administration
• Drug enforcement agents
• Drug dealers
• Drug traffic > Mexico > History
• Drug control > United States > History
• Biographies
• Biography
• Chapo, 1957-
• True crime stories
• Riley, Jack, 1958-
• Opioid abuse > United States > History
• Mexico
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Law Enforcement
• LAW / Government / Federal
• Fugitives from justice > Mexico
• Employees
• TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
• United States > Drug Enforcement Administration > Officials and employees > Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
• Drug enforcement agents > United States > Biography
• Drug dealers > Mexico
• History

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.
• Biographies.
• True crime stories.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Prologue: the chase, 2007 -- Glory days, 1986 -- The mentor -- Good cops bad cops -- The brothers -- No-name office -- Back with a vengeance -- Get shorty -- Saint Louis blues, 2000 -- New sheriff in town, 2007 -- The stark truth -- Homeward bound -- Border town -- Public enemy number one -- Long distance runaround, 2014 -- The suit -- Shorty redux -- Epilogue: Wrigley Field.

Call Number

JFE 19-5136

ISBN

• 9781602865839
• 1602865833
• 9781549167720 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781602865846 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018041368

OCLC

1066018169

Author

Riley, Jack, 1958- author.

Title

Drug warrior : inside the hunt for El Chapo and the rise of America's opioid crisis / Jack Riley with Mitch Weiss.

Publisher

New York : Hachette Books, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Weiss, Mitch, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-5136