RON CHEPESIUK is the author of 18 books including Hard Target: The U.S.'s War with International Drug Trafficking, 1982-1997 and War on Drugs: An International Encyclopedia. He has also published more than 2,000 newspaper and magazine articles that have appeared in such publications as USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Modern Maturity, and others. He is a Fulbright Scholar and teaches writing in the Journalism Program for the Extension Division of the University of California, Los Angeles.

• DedicationQuotationAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrologue: The Labs That Made It SnowThe RiseGetting StartedNew York, New YorkChepe Does His ThingGrowing the Criminal EnterpriseHeating UpDirty LaundryGoing MultinationalThe War of the CartelsExit the KingThe FallBreakthroughSubmission to JusticeThe Narco CassettesA Man of PeaceExit the SeñorTake DownThe EpilogueWhat Goes AroundA Chronology of the Cali CartelBibliography

RON CHEPESIUK is the author of 18 books including Hard Target: The U.S.'s War with International Drug Trafficking, 1982-1997 and War on Drugs: An International Encyclopedia. He has also published more than 2,000 newspaper and magazine articles that have appeared in such publications as USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Modern Maturity, and others. He is a Fulbright Scholar and teaches writing in the Journalism Program for the Extension Division of the University of California, Los Angeles.

• DedicationQuotationAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrologue: The Labs That Made It SnowThe RiseGetting StartedNew York, New YorkChepe Does His ThingGrowing the Criminal EnterpriseHeating UpDirty LaundryGoing MultinationalThe War of the CartelsExit the KingThe FallBreakthroughSubmission to JusticeThe Narco CassettesA Man of PeaceExit the SeñorTake DownThe EpilogueWhat Goes AroundA Chronology of the Cali CartelBibliography