Join us for an exciting new book club at t he Westlake Porter Public Library. We'll be delving into new and classic b ooks of true crime&mdash\;from murder\, to robbery\, heists\, and arson we will touch on every aspect of humanity's darker instincts.
\nIn May we will be reading Andrew Hoglan's and Douglas Century's \;Huntin g El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World 's Most-Wanted Drug Lord. \;
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\nA blend of&nbs p\;Manhunt\, Killing Pablo\, and \;Zero Dark Thirty\, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century&rsquo\;s sensational investigative high-tech thriller&mda sh\;soon to be a major motion picture from Sony&mdash\;chronicles a riveti ng chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo&mdash\;the world&rsquo\;s most wanted drug kingpin who evaded \; the law \;for more than a decade.
\nEvery generation has a large r-than-life criminal: Jesse James\, Billy the Kid\, John Dillinger\, Al Ca pone\, John Gotti\, Pablo Escobar. But each of these notorious lawbreakers had a "white hat" in pursuit: Wyatt Earp\, Pat Garrett\, Eliot Ness\, Ste ve Murphy. For notorious drug lord Joaquí\;n Archivaldo Guzmá\ ;n-Loera&mdash\;El Chapo&mdash\;that lawman is former Drug Enforcement Adm inistration Special Agent Andrew Hogan.
\nIn 2006\, fresh out of the D.E.A. Academy\, \;Hogan heads west to Arizona where he immediately p lunges into a series of gripping undercover adventures\, all unknowingly p lacing him on the trail of Guzmá\;n\, the leader of the Sinaloa Cart el\, a \;Forbes \;billionaire and Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States. Six years later\, as head of the D.E.A.&rsquo\;s Sinaloa Cartel d esk in Mexico City\, \;Hogan finds his life and Chapo&rsquo\;s are iro nically\, on parallel paths: they&rsquo\;re both obsessed with the details .
\nIn a recasting of the classic American Western on the global sta ge\, \;Hunting El Chapo \;takes us on Hogan&rsquo\;s quest to achi eve the seemingly impossible\, from infiltrating El Chapo&rsquo\;s inner c ircle to leading a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of trusted Mexican Marines&mdash\;racing door-to-door through the cartel&rsquo\;s str onghold and ultimately bringing the elusive and murderous king-pin to just ice.
\nThis \;cinematic crime story following the relentless inv estigative work of Hogan and his team unfolds at breakneck speed\, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerou s counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States and Mex ico.
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