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‘I was a drug trafficker in the true sense of the word: a pure narco.’
Careers in the cocaine-trafficking business are usually short. It’s not only a dangerous profession, fraught with the possibility of capture and long jail sentences, but it can be deadly if the cartels get to you first. Not for Luis Antonio Navia. For 25 years the Cuban-American smuggled hundreds of tons of white powder for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Then an international game of cat-and-mouse culminated in Navia’s 2000 arrest in Venezuela in one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time, the 12-nation Operation Journey.
Spanning decades, continents and featuring a who’s who of the drug trade, Pure Narco is a fast-paced adventure ride into the dark underworld of cocaine trafficking.
Navia served his time in jail and is now free to tell his tale. His is the rare perspective of someone who has worked on both sides of that war: as a cocaine trafficker and US Government consultant. This is a redemption story. Luis Navia, the pure narco, has gone full circle.
‘I was a drug trafficker in the true sense of the word: a pure narco.’
Careers in the cocaine-trafficking business are usually short. It’s not only a dangerous profession, fraught with the possibility of capture and long jail sentences, but it can be deadly if the cartels get to you first. Not for Luis Antonio Navia. For 25 years the Cuban-American smuggled hundreds of tons of white powder for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Then an international game of cat-and-mouse culminated in Navia’s 2000 arrest in Venezuela in one of the biggest antinarcotics takedowns of all time, the 12-nation Operation Journey.
Spanning decades, continents and featuring a who’s who of the drug trade, Pure Narco is a fast-paced adventure ride into the dark underworld of cocaine trafficking.
Navia served his time in jail and is now free to tell his tale. His is the rare perspective of someone who has worked on both sides of that war: as a cocaine trafficker and US Government consultant. This is a redemption story. Luis Navia, the pure narco, has gone full circle.
A life story that reads like something out of a John Grisham or Elmore Leonard tale that it’s remarkable it has remained untold for so long.
Jesse Fink is the author of five non–fiction books and has been
published in over 20 countries and 13 foreign languages – Estonian,
Lithuanian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Swedish,
Japanese, Portuguese, Danish, Serbian and Russian. He was born in
London, England, in 1973 and raised and educated in Sydney,
Australia, by his Australian parents.
After working for five years as senior editor of non-fiction at
HarperCollins Publishers, Fink won several sportswriting awards as
a journalist for Inside Sport magazine, which he served as deputy
editor from 2003 to 2006. In 2003 he was nominated for a Walkley
Award for Coverage of Sport.
In 2006, Fink began writing daily soccer blogs for Fox Sports
Australia. The following year he wrote his first book, 15 Days in
June, the story of Australia’s performance at the 2006 FIFA World
Cup and its forgotten history in Asian football. Luis Navia, born
in Havana in 1955, worked for nearly 25 years as a cocaine
trafficker for the deadliest Colombian and Mexican cartels until he
was arrested in the multinational takedown Operation Journey in
2000. He was released in 2005 and began a new career in
construction. Today he also runs his own consulting business for
private clients and liaises with the US Government in matters
related to antinarcotics law enforcement. He is the co-author with
Jesse Fink of Pure Narco. Keith Scott is a veteran voice actor. He
has been in the industry since the 70s and specialises in character
voices – he can replicate just about anyone. Keith has provided
numerous voices for classic kids’ shows such as The Adventures of
Blinky Bill (for over ten years!), Fairy Tale Police Department,
Old Tom and Flipper & Lopaka. He was also the iconic narrator in
George of the Jungle.
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