At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel By William Rempel
I was born in the early 80's in the US but moved to Colombia when I was only 2 years old. All my upbringing era was when all this happened and all I saw was the news and probably just tought lots of this were normal violent times in a country plagued by corruption. The book At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel I too as some reviews before mine did binge watch Narco's Season 3 become enad with Jorge's characterso I googled him and found At The Devils Table. Narco's did a pretty good job re enacting the story based upon this authors & Jorge's account. I especially like all At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel super interesting book At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
Growing up in Miami I lived through the “Cocaine War years!” What Escobar did with the Medellin Cartel was hell in Miami, what the Orejuela brothers did came close to the APOCALYPSE, because the Cali Cartel learned from Escobar’s mistakes and put together a criminal At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel I watched Narcos Season 3 on Netflix before I knew about this book. I found it after doing research when I was done watching the season I found out this book was used to write/product Season 3. Since I was enad with the Cali Cartel and Jorge's stories I immediately At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel So many stores are about the Medellin side and Pablo Escobar. These tell of how Pablo had a heart, gave much of his money back to the people of Colombia, built hospitals and educational facilities, and created jobs. Although he was a bad guy, in these books he is At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel This is one of the best books I have read. Written like a novel! Jorge Solcedo is a hero! At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel Amazing book, it tells the whole story about the Cali cartel, this book is an amazing, eye capturing book, I personally lived in Cali during this period where the cartels where at war and knew a lot about them, this book precisely tells the story of the Cali cartel and how At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherous Cali crime syndicate.
Colombia in the 1990s is a country in chaos, as a weak government battles guerrilla movements and narco traffickers, including the notorious Pablo Escobar and his rivals in the Cali cartel. Enter Jorge Salcedo, a part time soldier, a gifted engineer, a respected businessman and family man—and a man who despises Pablo Escobar for patriotic and deeply personal reasons. He is introduced to the godfathers of the Cali cartel, who are at war with Escobar and desperately want their foe dead. With mixed feelings, Jorge agrees to help them.
Once inside, Jorge rises to become head of security for Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, principal godfather of the $7 billion a year Cali drug cartel. Jorge tries to turn a blind eye to the violence, corruption, and brutality that surround him, and he struggles privately to preserve his integrity, even as he is drawn deeper into the web of cartel operations. Then comes an order from the godfathers that he can’t obey—but can’t refuse. Jorge realizes that his only way out is to bring down the biggest, richest crime syndicate of all time.
Thus begins a heart pumping roller coaster ride of intensifying peril. Secretly aided by a pair of young American DEA agents, Jorge races time and cartel assassins to extract damaging evidence, help capture the fugitive godfather, and save the life of a witness targeted for murder. Through it all, death lurks a single misstep away.
William C. Rempel is the only reporter with access to this story and to Jorge, who remains in hiding somewhere in the United States—even the author doesn’t know where—but has revealed his experience in gripping detail. Salcedo’s is the story of one extraordinary, ordinary man forced to risk everything to end a nightmare of his own making.
At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel