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Title: At the Devil's Table
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
Author: William...
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Title: At the Devil's Table
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
Author: William Rempel
Narrator: Fred Sanders
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-21-11
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 278 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime
Publisher's Summary:
In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemmaa man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherous Cali crime syndicate.
Colombia in the 1990s is a country in chaos, as a weak government battles guerrilla movements and narco-traffickers, including the notorious Pablo Escobar and his rivals in the Cali cartel. Enter Jorge Salcedo, a part-time soldier, a gifted engineer, a respected businessman and family manand a man who despises Pablo Escobar for patriotic and deeply personal reasons. He is introduced to the godfathers of the Cali cartel, who are at war with Escobar and desperately want their foe dead. With mixed feelings, Jorge agrees to help them.
Once inside, Jorge rises to become head of security for Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, principal godfather of the $7-billion-a-year Cali drug cartel. Jorge tries to turn a blind eye to the violence, corruption, and brutality that surround him, and he struggles privately to preserve his integrity, even as he is drawn deeper into the web of cartel operations. Then comes an order from the godfathers that he cant obeybut cant refuse. Jorge realizes that his only way out is to bring down the biggest, richest crime syndicate of all time.
Thus begins a heart-pumping roller-coaster ride of intensifying peril. Secretly aided by a pair of young American DEA agents, Jorge races time and cartel assassins to extract damaging evidence, help capture the fugitive godfather, and save the life of a witness targeted for murder. Through it all, death lurks a single misstep away.
William C. Rempel is the only reporter with access to this story and to Jorge, who remains in hiding somewhere in the United Stateseven the author doesnt know wherebut has revealed his experience in gripping detail. Salcedos is the story of one extraordinary, ordinary man forced to risk everything to end a nightmare of his own making.
Critic Reviews:
"A fast-paced, heart-racing nonfiction thriller." (
Kirkus Reviews)
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