The Infiltrator
Books | True Crime / Organized Crime
Robert Mazur
The electrifying true story of Robert Mazur's life as an undercover agent who infiltrated one of the world's largest drug cartels by posing as a high-level money launderer -- the inspiration for the major motion picture The Infiltrator. Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating the Medellín Cartel's criminal hierarchy. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended -- some of whom still shape power across the globe -- knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in $1,000-per-night hotel suites, drank bottles of the world's finest champagne, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles, and flew in private jets. But under Mazur's Armani suits and in his Renwick briefcase, recorders whirred silently, capturing the damning evidence of their crimes. The Infiltrator is the story of how Mazur helped bring down the unscrupulous bankers who manipulated complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. It is a shocking chronicle of the rise and fall of one of the biggest and most intricate money-laundering operation of all time-an enterprise that cleaned and moved hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Filled with dangerous lies, near misses, and harrowing escapes, The Infiltrator is as bracing and explosive as the greatest fiction thrillers -- only it's all true.
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Author
Robert Mazur
Pages
368
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2009-07-27
ISBN
0316080373 9780316080378
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"I thought this book was going to be so gripping… but I couldn’t even finish it. I started reading this book while on vacation, so it was what I was reading as I traveled over spring break on a flight with a layover… and I still came home having read less than 100 pages… 4 days since returning and I’m only at 50%.
The story held interesting information, but that all was overshadowed by way too many details. I was unable to keep up with the amount of characters, hotels, restaurants, and cities. The author speaks from his own experience, but writes it as if he was only allowed to write in a factual and unemotional manner.
Off to watch the movie to see the half I didn’t read. "