BETRAYAL

Robert Mazur was a Federal Agent for 27 years. During five years of his law enforcement career he was a long-term undercover agent operating in deep cover within the underworld as a high-level money launderer for several members of Colombian drug cartels. He not only dealt directly with cartel leaders, but also functioned as their conduit to corrupt international bankers around the world and is an expert in money laundering. The sub-title of this book is 'The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers'. For three years agent Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medellín drug cartel. He re-emerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. He was now Robert Baldasare, money launderer and president of an international trade finance company. Deployed to Panama, he worked, travelled, partied and washed millions with Central America's criminal elite. Partnered with a young superstar DEA task force agent, he slipped effortlessly into Colombia's notorious Cali drug cartel, but as his underworld reputation skyrocketed, the operation started going dangerously off the rails. Refusing to acknowledge the threats ahead, and despite it being evident that his identity had been compromised, Mazur was obsessed with seeing the mission through to its treacherous end - expose the Cali cartel, find out who betrayed him, and escape with his life. Packed with real life-or-death situations and the reality of the underworld of drug traffickers and terrorists through the eyes of an unarmed operative who, like human bait, placed himself into isolated situations where the only thing protecting him from instant death was his acting ability. 288pp with glossary of names and 16 pages of archive photos. Paperback.