Description: Over the course of three decades, El Chapo was responsible for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, and fentanyl around the world, becoming in the process the most celebrated and reviled drug lord since Pablo Escobar. This is the true story of how El Chapo built the world's wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking operation, based on months' worth of trial testimony and dozens of interviews with cartel gunmen, Mexican journalists and political figures, Chapo's family members, and the DEA agents who brought him down.
Brief description: Noah Hurowitz is a journalist based in New York City. He covered the trial of El Chapo for Rolling Stone, and his work has also appeared in The Village Voice, The Baffler, New York magazine, and many more. El Chapo is his first book.
Review Quotes:
"New York-based journalist Hurowitz expandes on his Rolling Stone coverage of the federal drug-trafficking trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera to show how he built his infamous empire and the consequences that remain."
-- "Library Journal"