Snatched, Bruce Porter
Snatched, Bruce Porter
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Snatched
From Drug Queen to Informer to Hostage—a Harrowing True Story

Author: Bruce Porter

Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez

Unabridged: 13 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/19/2016


Synopsis

Snatched is the electric tale by the New York Times bestselling author of Blow, Bruce Porter, that tells the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, with her life dangling in the balance.Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade.After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children—until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to members of a new task force being formed by the DEA. They induce Pilar, now a middle-aged woman, to infiltrate the Cali cartel as the head of a vast money-laundering sting.Named Operation Princess, the scheme leads to the seizure of tens of millions of dollars, along with some $500 million worth of cocaine and the exposure of hundreds of high-level traffickers, becoming one of the most daring and successful stings in DEA history.But Pilar plays her part too well. Her success as a money launderer gets her kidnapped and then ransomed by a band of guerrillas in South America—and the United States government refuses to negotiate. It’s left to her low-level handlers in the DEA to get her back before her kidnappers discover they have a federal agent in their clutches.

About Bruce Porter

Bruce Porter is a former writer for Newsweek and a professor at the Columbia Journalism School. He has written for the Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, Playboy, and Rolling Stone, as well as dozens of other magazines and newspapers. Porter’s first book, Blow, was a bestselling New York Times Notable Book and was made into a major motion picture. He lives in New York City.

About Roxanne Hernandez

Roxanne Hernandez is a 2011 Audie Award Finalist, and a top narrator choice for Young Adult, Adult Drama, and Latin American/Chicano literature. Roxanne is fluent in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, and loves doing first person point of view.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Porter is a brilliant story-teller, condensing this 25-year true crime saga into a crisp narrative that buzzes along without bogging down thanks to his casual, tell-me-a-story style. The details of the Wild West approach of the federal agencies involved in the "war on drugs" ought to blow your mind.......more

Solid 3.5 Bruce Porter gives us a biography of sorts of a government CI named Pilar. She sacrifices her life to help the government go after drug lords and kingpins. He also gives a mini biography on one of the investigators who was responsible for setting up the taskforce involved with tackling the......more

This book is definitely everything the cover reads it to be. The story that Bruce Porter tells here of "Pilar" is intriguing on multiple accounts. There's the way she carries herself as a woman that you can't quite help but to love and then there's everything you know about her; which, despite her g......more


Quotes

“This amazing true story could have been written for the big screen…An exciting read…This entertaining and sad story of a woman doing what she has to in order to protect her family will satisfy fans of Blow, Donnie Brasco, and true crime stories.” Library Journal (starred review)

“In Porter’s hands, Pilar’s story will easily hook readers from start to finish; the book reads like an action-packed movie script.” Publishers Weekly

“An engaging, improbable true-crime tale that underscores the grandiose futility of the drug war.” Kirkus Reviews