Inside the Cartel

NEED TO KNOW

An FBI agent who spent decades undercover inside a Colombian cartel tells all in a new memoir

In the book, Martin Suarez recounts when a hitman pressed a gun to his skull, and and other life-or-death moments

He also details how the double life strained his roles as a husband and father — and why he’s telling the story now

For more than two decades, FBI Special Agent Martin Suarez lived a life few thought possible: he went undercover inside a Colombian drug cartel.

Known as “Manny” to the traffickers who trusted him, Suarez smuggled more than a billion dollars’ worth of cocaine into the United States (all of it eventually seized), laundered millions, and came face-to-face with the organization’s most ruthless enforcers.

Suarez shares his experiences in I nside the Carte