El Chapo

The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord

By: Noah Hurowitz

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz’s revelatory coverage for Rolling Stone of El Chapo’s federal drug-trafficking trial.

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.

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. El Chapo waged ruthless wars against his rivals and former allies, plunging vast areas of Mexico into unprecedented levels of violence, even as many in his home state of Sinaloa continued to view him as a hero.

This unputdownable book, written by a great new talent, brings El Chapo’s exploits into a focus that previous profiles have failed to capture. Hurowitz digs in deep beyond the legends and delves into El Chapo’s life and legacy—not just the hunt for him, revealing some of the most dramatic and often horrifying moments of his notorious career, including the infamous prison escapes, brutal murders, multi-million-dollar government payoffs, and the paranoia and narcissism that led to his downfall. From the evolution of organized crime in Mexico to the militarization of the drug war to the devastation wrought on both sides of the border by the introduction of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, this book is a gripping and comprehensive work of investigative, on-the-ground reporting.

Outstanding Journalism!

The best study and reporting of not only El Chapo, but of the history of the entire drug trade and the true forces behind it.
Horowitz should have won a Pulitzer for this amazing reporting!

Great reporting, thoroughly researched, and a great flowing storyline!

If you haven't paid attention to Mexico the last 20 years, you'd the think this book is a work of fiction, but amazingly it's all true! Fantastic book on a fascinating subject that for whatever reason gets underreported in the U.S.

Just my opinion...

This book isn't for everyone... But I thought it was good.... He's in American jail now, he's not escaping anymore...

Great book

The first few chapters are just a background of what’s the narco enterprise is about, and by middle forward the author provides insightful information that spawned during chapo’s trial…

This book dragged

Basically tells a “biased” story of how Chapo came to power and outsmarted the law for years.. The narrator is bland and the story draggggggsssss on about failed attempt to capture or keep Chapo captured. I couldn’t wait for this to be over. Hoping theres a better tell all out there this wasn’t it..